This paper studies how a positive export shock -- the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … paper shows that, following the increase in exports of the female-intensive good, the male-female wage gap closes …

in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. This paper subjects this theoretical prediction … to a reality check drawing upon the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 … developing countries to all destinations. Around 50 percent of the variation in exports across trading partners is shown to be …

evidence that the marginal effect of infrastructure improvement on exports appears to be decreasing in per capita income. In … contrast, the impact of information and communications technology on exports appears increasingly important for richer … countries. Drawing on estimates, the authors compute illustrative exports growth for developing countries and ad …

sophistication of a country's exports with the average income level of destination countries, we show that the performance of a … et al. (2007) as a point of departure, we suggest that it is not just the composition of exports but their destination …

disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports, the paper documents the progressive retreat of Argentine …