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This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …
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This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
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This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...
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(henceforth, Brexit) has impacted international student applications in the United Kingdom. Using administrative data spanning … from 2013 through 2019, along with a quasi-experimental approach, we find evidence of Brexit curtailing the growth rate of … student exchanges to research, development and growth, further research on the implications of Brexit for UK universities and …
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We provide causal evidence of the impact of the Brexit referendum vote on hate crime in the United Kingdom (UK). Using … Brexit referendum led to an increase in hate crime by around 15-25%. This effect was concentrated in the first quarter after …
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There were large regional differentials in the Brexit vote. Most notably, the percentage voting to leave the EU ranged … to provide a more nuanced picture of regional differences in the Brexit vote by examining in particular the role that …
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migration flows will be driven by a number of factors, macroeconomic and otherwise, Brexit and the end of free movement will …
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On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (so-called 'Brexit'). This paper uses newly … against Brexit. Two key findings emerge. First, unhappy feelings contributed to Brexit. However, contrary to commonly heard … feelings about his or her own financial situation. Second, despite some commentators' guesses, Brexit was not caused by old …
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wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a …. The initial positive subjective wellbeing effect of the Brexit vote was particularly pronounced for male and older … respondents who reported a preference for leaving the EU. However, adaptation to the Brexit result appears to be complete three …
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