.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets … industries. In our main specification, import competition explains one-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …

clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … competition over 1999 through 2011 in the range of 2.0 to 2.4 million …