Automating Efficiency: The Impact of Industrial Robots on Labor Investment in China

The file contains the data and code used in the paper. Data on industrial robots are sourced from the IFR, while company-level financial data are obtained from the CSMAR, WIND, and CNRDS databases. City-level data are derived from the China Urban Statistical Yearbook. Chinese manufacturing data come from the China Industrial Statistical Yearbook, and US manufacturing-level data are sourced from the NBER-CES. Manufacturing-level data for the importing country are collected from the World Import and Export Database (WIOD).