annieyuhsinhsu / Data-QCEW-Bartik

Using QCEW employment data (NAICS code) to construct Bartik instruments in MSAs level

Data-Bartik-Employment

• Data source: QCEW

• Geographic level: county

  • file name ending with: _all (all county)
  • file name ending with: _mc (main county)
  • file name ending with: _nmc (surrounding county)

• Bartik instrument: local initial employment shares time with national industrial employment growth

  • Goldsmith-Pinkham (2020)

• Decomposition:

  • Version 1: aggregate all industries;
  • Version 2: decompose industries into two categories;
  • Version 3: use each industry as a separate instrument

• The data is constructed for Top 60 MSAs and I base on the delineation file which publlished in 1990.