Data & Programs

Appendix material on China firm-level data used in:

• Brandt, L., Van Biesebroeck, J., Zhang, Y. (2012), "Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction? Firm-level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing," Journal of Development Economics, 97(2): 339-351. [pdf]
• Brandt, L., Van Biesebroeck, J., Zhang, Y. (2014), "Challenges of Working with the Chinese NBS Firm-level Data," China Economic Review, 30: 339-352. [pdf]
• Brandt, L., Van Biesebroeck, J., Wang, L., Zhang, Y. (2017), "WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms," American Economic Review, 107(9): 2784-2820. [pdf]
• Brandt, L., Van Biesebroeck, J., Wang, L., Zhang, Y. (2019), "WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms: Corrigendum," American Economic Review, 109(4): 1616-1621. [pdf]

• Industry concordances (4 files, 1-3 Stata data & 4^th in Excel):
  1. concordance_over_time (CIC_ADJ-02-03)
  2. IO-CIC_pre2002
  3. IO-CIC_post2002
  4. IO_sectors
• Deflators (7 Stata data files):
  1. input_2digit
  2. input_14sector
  3. input_benchmark; (note: there was a mistake in this file and we updated it 15/11/2018)
  4. capital
  5. output_2digit
  6. output_14sector
  7. output_benchmark
• Programs (2 Stata program files):
  1. Match firms over time
  2. Calculate real capital stock (note: 2007 investment deflator is 116.7)
  3. Data on investment growth needed in the program to calculate real capital stock