We explore the relationship between Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and environmental policy, and the implications of negotiating environmental policy in trade agreements. Without the inclusion of domestic instrument restrictions, countries can alter environmental policy in order to influence the...

In this paper, we examine the question of how trade drives educational attainment in a cross-country panel setting. If a country experience a positive demand shock for exports or a negative supply shock for imports that is intensive in educated labor, the demand for education is expected to...

Using data for 93 countries for a period from 1970 to 2000, this paper examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on cross-country differences in productivity. We construct a spatial Gini coefficient of labor productivity across countries, and weighted indices of FDI and gross...