We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … ; employment ; China ; Eastern Europe ; Germany …

vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …

economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …

to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large …. Therefore while conflict may not be the driving factor in overall levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan, it may limit the … programs. -- Afghanistan ; food security ; conflict ; nutrition ; poverty ; spatial distribution …

Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR … distributions suggest that policy analyses relying solely on OLS estimates may be misleading. -- Afghanistan ; food prices ; wheat …

sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment …). -- Afghanistan ; RCT ; education ; gender …

Our research examines the effect of combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan on casualties. We use restricted data … types. Our estimates indicate that overall U.S. military personnel who deployed in an individual year to Iraq or Afghanistan …

This paper uses microdata from the Labor Force and Household Surveys conducted in Afghanistan to show the wage premium …