Choi, Jiwon; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Washington, Ebonya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In event-study analysis, we demonstrate that counties whose 1990 employment depended on … industries vulnerable to NAFTA suffered large and persistent employment losses relative to other counties. These losses begin in … data, we show that protectionist views predict movement toward the GOP in the years that NAFTA is debated and implemented …