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This paper calculates the Anderson-Neary (2005) trade restrictiveness index (TRI) for the United States using nearly a century of data. The results show that the standard import-weighted average tariff understates the TRI, defined as the uniform tariff that yields the same welfare loss as the...
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For more than a decade, the United States and Canada have been engaged in a rancorous dispute over trade in softwood … industry has sought to have countervailing duties imposed upon Canadian lumber imports. The U.S. interests argue that Canada …
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Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy …
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We show that the specific factors model can be used to derive a rigorous link between movements in stock prices and productivity, wages, employment, output, and welfare. We also prove that the commonly used measure of the effective rate of protection equals the dual measure of revenue TFP,...
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This paper provides estimates of the trade impacts of U.S. antidumping law and the determinants of suit filing activity … from 1980-1985. We study three possible channels through which the threat or mere possibility of antidumping duties can … antidumping law. We refer to these three non- duty effects as the investigation effect, the suspension effect, and the withdrawal …
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Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...
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The post-COVID price surge has reignited interest in inflation's impact on American households. Even if anticipated and with full market adjustments, inflation affects households through its interaction with the fiscal system, which is the focus of this paper. Inflation affects households...
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We exploit a panel of city-level data with rich demographic information to estimate the distributional effects of Department of Defense spending and its effects on a range of social outcomes. The income generated by defense spending accrues predominantly to households without a bachelor's...
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In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandated that private insurance plans extend coverage to adult dependents under the age of 26. We hypothesize that this policy may have had the unintended consequence of increasing "job lock" among parents who would otherwise leave their employer. We use a...
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