This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two …

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 …

and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …

outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China's WTO entry …

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate …

We examine how exogenous changes in exposure to air pollution over the past two decades have altered the disparities in … Black homeowners. In fact, they are so much lower that, despite secular reductions in the Black-White pollution exposure gap …

gauge the effect of exposure to air pollution on US life expectancy. Using changes in wind direction as an instrument for … effects of chronic air pollution exposure for a cohort born in 1972. Model calculations of the effect of chronic exposure on …

Extensive research has documented that elevated air pollution increases mortality and morbidity, with estimates … higher transient peaks. Should government interventions aimed at improving health prioritize reductions in ambient pollution …--for example, regulating industrial emissions--or peak pollution? We conduct a field experiment studying the impacts of reducing a …