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women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to …
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This paper provides a new heterogeneous firm model for trade where firms differ in their productivity and experience different market demand shocks. The model incorporates variations in trade policy, trade preferences, and the rules of origin needed to obtain them, to reflect real world...
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that changes in various extensive margins (new markets, new goods) account for over 30 percent of export growth over this …-level characteristics interacting with destination-specific characteristics. We confirm that export growth for “new” products was stronger …
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trade with the rest of the world, not the American colonies, that allowed Britain to export its rapidly expanding textile …
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We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …, at both the industry level and the local commuting zone level, the global export expansion of US products also creates a … import and export exposure is roughly balanced at the commuting zone level …
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This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives...
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We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in...
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wholesale prices, and effects of regulations of intermediaries. To test these we study the effects of a policy in Bangladesh …
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This paper looks at the predictions of a standard heterogeneous firm model regarding the exports of firms across markets in response to a particular trade policy quot;experimentquot; and compares these predictions to the data. A unique feature of our data is that it has information on the...
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The 1994 discovery of arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh prompted a massive public health campaign that led 20% of …
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