James A. Levinsohn
Funded Research:
Family Support and Rapid Social Change in South Africa (NICHD)
Associate Dean, G. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Professor, G. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Professor, Economics, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., Princeton University
Dr. Levinsohn's research interests span international economics, industrial organization, applied econometrics, and development economics. His current research is on estimating productivity, understanding industry dynamics, the impact of globalization on wage determination, and estimating changes in poverty in South Africa.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Banerjee, A., Galiani, S., James A. Levinsohn, Z. McLaren, and I. Woolard. 2008. "Why has unemployment risen in the New South Africa?" Economics of Transition, 16(4): 715-740. Worldcat.
Berry, S., James A. Levinsohn, and A. Pakes. 2004. "Differentiated Products Demand Systems From a Combination of Micro and Macro Data: the New Car Market." Journal of Political Economy, 112(1): 68-105. DOI:10.1086/379939. Licensed Access.
Ardington, C., David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, and James A. Levinsohn. 2004. "Savings, insurance and debt over the post-apartheid period: A review of recent research." South African Journal of Economics, 72(3): 604-640.
Levinsohn, James A., Amil Petrin, and Brian Poi. 2004. "Production function estimation in Stata using inputs to control for unobservables." The Stata Journal, 4(2): 113-123.
Levinsohn, James A., Paul Johnson, and Richard Higgins. 2004. "The competitive neighbors approach to analyzing differentiated product mergers." Antitrust Law and Economics, 12: 459-473.
Chapters
Hallak, J., and Levinsohn, James A. 2008. "Fooling ourselves : evaluating the globalization and growth debate." In The future of globalization:explorations in light of recent turbulence edited by Zedillo Ponce de León, Ernesto. New York: Routledge.
Other Reports
Dinkelman, Taryn, James A. Levinsohn, and Rolang George Majelantle. 2006. "When knowledge is not enough: HIV/AIDS information and risky behavior in Botswana." NBER Working Paper No. 12418. Abstract.
Levinsohn, James A., and Margaret Stokes McMillan. 2005. "Does food aid harm the poor? : household evidence from Ethiopia." NBER Working Paper No. 11048.
Leibbrandt, Murray, James A. Levinsohn, and Justin McCrary. 2005. "Incomes in South Africa since the fall of apartheid." NBER Working Paper No. 11384.
Petrin, Amil, and James A. Levinsohn. 2005. "Measuring aggregate productivity growth using plant-level data." NBER Working Paper No. 11887 .
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