emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …

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

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

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock … 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 …