We examine the price and variety of products at the barcode level in cities within China and the United States. In both … countries, there is a greater variety of products in larger cities. But in China, unlike the United States, the prices of … follows that the cost of living for grocery-store products in China is lower in larger cities. We further compare the cost …

particular the Limarí Valley); (3) China (in particular, the North); (4) South Africa; and (5) the western United States. It …

understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U ….S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …

subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share …

The ‘China shock’ operated in part through the housing market, which is one reason why its impact was so large in the …, the indirect effect of the China shock through the housing market explains one-fifth as much of the variance in employment …

Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …

We analyze the effects of China's rapid export expansion following WTO entry on U.S. prices, exploiting cross … with reduced U.S. tariff uncertainty, expanded export participation. We find that China's WTO entry significantly reduced … comes from the entry of new Chinese exporters. China's WTO entry also led other countries exporting to the U.S. to lower …

, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period … of rapid and significant aging requiring major fiscal adjustments.In previous studies that excluded China we predicted …, reducing real wages per unit of human capital. Adding China to the model dramatically alters this prediction. Even though China …

Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of ….S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of …