This paper examines the impacts of trade on youth employment in the United States. The overarching goal is to link lessons from the decline of manufacturing jobs in the past decades to future prospects for the US economy. We find higher rates of job losses with exposure to import competition for...

To drive economic development, it is important for policy makers to have a good understanding of the linkages between imports, exports, and the rest of the economy. This is particularly true for Africa. The continent depends on exports of commodities to finance imports of manufactured goods for...

How can one motivate field staff to meet activity goals on time? Can introducing competition within groups motivate workers to meet goals faster than simply setting targets for workers? We conducted an experiment that assigned field workers for the KasuwaGo Project into two treatment groups:...

We use the Exporter Dynamics Database to identify differences in the margins of export growth for three country groups: high-income, middle-income, and least developed countries. The growing literature on trade dynamics suggests that economic development comes with trade growth on two margins --...

China's share of Africa's goods exports increased from less than 1% in 1989 to 12.4% in 2016. Did this rapid shift in Africa's exports help or hurt economic stability on the continent? To address the question, this paper decomposes export growth shocks into its components, to estimate the share...