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James Levinsohn

J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Economics

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

735 South State Street
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
(734) 763-2319 (office) 763-9181 (fax) 615-9876
jamesl@umich.edu

Papers and Publications
Classes and Seminars
Miscellany

Some recent working papers:

Abhijit Banerjee, Sebastian Galiani, James Levinsohn, and Ingrid Woolard, "Why has unemployment risen in the new South Africa," October 2006, PDF format
Taryn Dinkelman, James Levinsohn, and Rolang Majelantle, "When knowledge is not enough: HIV/AIDS information and risky behavior in Botswana," June 2006, PDF format.
Murray Leibbrandt, James Levinsohn, and Justin McCrary, "Incomes in South Africa since the fall of Apartheid," December 2005, PDF format. Programs for this paper are available here.
Amil Petrin and James Levinsohn, "Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-level Data," November 2005, PDF format
James Levinsohn and Margaret McMillan, "Does Food Aid Harm the Poor? Household Evidence from Ethiopia" December 2004, PDF format
James Levinsohn, "Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English In South Africa," October 2004, PDF format
Juan Carlos Hallak and James Levinsohn, "Fooling Ourselves: Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Debate," 2004, Word format
James Levinsohn, "The World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Approach: Good Marketing or Good Policy," August 2002, PDF format
James Levinsohn and Wendy Petropoulos, "Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction: The U.S. Textile and Apparel Industries since 1972," June 2001. postscript format pdf format.
James Levinsohn, "A Primer on Skill-Biased Technical Change in an Open Economy: Ideas and Evidence," June 2002. pdf format.
James Levinsohn, "Globalization and Poverty," August 2000. Prepared for the October, 2000 Meeting of the G-24, Geneva, Switzerland. pdf format.
James Levinsohn and Amil Petrin , "When Industries Become More Productive, Do Firms?: Investigating Productivity Dynamics," January, 1999. postscript format pdf format.

C.V.:

.pdf A more or less up-to-date copy of a vita.

On-Line Books and Web Sites:

"Globalization and the U.S. Labor Market,", with Gordon Hanson, Michael Knetter, Edward Leamer, and Matthew Slaughter, 2002 (in progress.) Visit this Web Site..
"The Analysis of South African Household Survey Data", 2003. Visit this Web Site.
"Analyzing the Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS-I)", 2005. Visit this Web Site.

Recent and other selected publications:

Steven Berry, James Levinsohn and Ariel Pakes, "Automobile Prices in Market Equilibrium", Econometrica, July 1995, 841-890. Abstract.
Robert Feenstra and James Levinsohn, "Estimating Markups and Market Conduct with Multidimensional Product Attributes," Review of Economic Studies , January 1995, 19-52.
Edward Leamer and James Levinsohn, "International Trade Theory: The Evidence," in The Handbook of International Economics: Vol. III , edited by G. Grossman and K. Rogoff, Elsevier Science B.V., pp. 1339-1394, 1995.
David Hummels and James Levinsohn, "Monopolistic Competition and International Trade: Reconsidering the Evidence," Quarterly Journal of Economics , August 1995, 799-836.
Steven Berry ,, Jamesl Levinsohn, and Ariel Pakes,, "Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles: Evaluating a Trade Policy", American Economic Review Vol. 89, No. 3 (June), pp. 400-430, 1999. To download the data for this paper and the programs (written in Gauss) that were used in this paper, click here for further instructions.
Henrik Horn and James Levinsohn, "Merger Policies and Trade Liberalisation," Economic Journal, pp. 244-276, April 2001. postscript format pdf format.
Jed Friedman and James Levinsohn, "The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia's Financial Crisis on Household Welfare: A "Rapid Response" Methodology," pdf format Volume 16, No. 3, pp. 397-423, World Bank Economic Review , 2002.
James Levinsohn and Amil Petrin, "Estimating Production Functions Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables," April 2003. pdf format of a late draft, see REStud for the final version. April 2003, pp. 317-342. Review of Economic Studies .
James Levinsohn, Steven Berry, and Jed Friedman, "Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor." postscript format pdf format. In "Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets," edited by Michael Dooley and Jeffrey Frankel, 2003.
Steven Berry, Jamesl Levinsohn, and Ariel Pakes, "Differentiated Products Demand Systems from a Combination of Micro and Macro Data: The New Car Market," Journal of Political Economy, February 2004, pp. 68-105.

Fall 2006 Classes and Seminars

SPP 555 Microeconomics A.
SPP 731 . The SPP course, by application only, for the South Africa Distance Learning Project.
International Economics Seminar Schedule - 2006-07 (In Process.) Provisional Schedule

Miscellany

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