Data from Braguinsky, Serguey, Atsushi Ohyama, Tetsuji Okazaki,
and Chad Syverson, 2020. "Product Innovation, Product Diversification and
Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan?s Early Industrialization." NBER Working Paper No. 26665,
Supported by The NSF grant award #1632833
Panel Data on Machine Capacity of Japanese Cotton Spinning
Firms, Matched with Technical Characteristics of Machines
from Orders Placed with British Textile Machine
Manufacturers 1887-1914
January 20, 2020
These data files provide digital versions of the orders placed by Japanese
cotton spinning firms with British textile machine manufacturers from
1887-1914. Photocopies were taken of orders in order books held in the
Platt Saco Lowell Collection held in Lancashire Archives in Preston,
U.K. with permission from the archives and no restrictions on
dissemination. The data files also include Excel and a Stata data files
where these photocopied data are brought together, including important
machine technical characteristics; a Stata data file with panel data on
firm-level total capacity for the universe of Japanese cotton spinning
firms for the same period from Japanese archival sources; a Stata code
file to match the Excel file with technical characteristics of machines
ordered from Bri!tish textile machine manufacturers to firm-level total
capacity data from Japanese archival sources; and the combined file that
contains the breakdown of matched machines by types of cotton yarn they
were designed to produce.
The photocopies of the orders were made by Professor Serguey Braguinsky in
Preston, U.K. in August 2017, with the permission from Lancashire Archives
and financial support from the NSF Grant, Award #1632833. They were
digitalized by Professor Serguey Braguinsky with the help from Osaka
University doctoral student Kohei Yamagata, supported by the same NSF
grant above. The machine capacity data to be matched with the orders data
were digitalized by Professors Serguey Braguinsky and Chad Syverson with
the help of several RAs, supported by the same NSF grant. The matching of
the two data sources (including writing the stata code file) was conducted
by Professor Braguinsky.
List of orders with the basic information
digitalized from the photocopied orders in the Excel
format. This file is called by capacity_v4_1.do file.
List of
orders with the semiannual timing to be matched to the
orders file above, on the one hand, and the Japanese
archival data on total machine capacity, on the other
hand, in Stata format. This file is called by
capacity_v4_1.do..
Panel data on firm-level total capacity for the universe of Japanese
cotton spinning firms for the same period in the Stata format. This file
is called by capacity_v4_1.do.
Stata code to match orders.all.dta and
firm_capacity_final.dta files above.
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Contents and Directory Structure
Original photocopies from Lancashire archives
Original photocopies from Lancashire archives contains original
photocopies of machine orders placed by Japanese cotton spinning firms
with British textile machine manufacturers from 1887-1914.
Japanese_machine_orders_from_Britain_1887_1914.xlsx
orders_all.dta orders_all.dta
firm_capacity_final.dta firm_capacity_final.dta
code_to_match_machine_orders_to_capacity_v4_1.do>
firm_capacity_breakdown_v4_1.dta>
can be obtained using the code above, is the final product
giving the breakdown of all machines in the panel data on
the universe of Japanese firms between 1887-1914 by the
types of cotton yarn they were designed to produce in the
Stata format.
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