This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes … quasi-linear preferences the effect of the terms of trade on child labor depends critically on the pattern of … substitutability (or complementarity) in the excess demand functions between the export good and the nontraded good. We extend the …

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North … imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP. We allow these contributions to differ and …-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion …

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …

variables – education, governance or openness – result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: i …

issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …

subsidy spurs global demand for food and confers a terms-of-trade benefit to the food-exporting nation. This might encourage … subsidization. Terms-of-trade effects wash out between trading nations; hence, any policy intervention by the two trading nations …

complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with heterogeneous, monopolistically competitive firms, extending Melitz (2003 … predicted and observed correlations between export status and input and output prices are similar to those for plant size. We …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …

we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition … institutional development. …