This paper provides clear evidence that increased exposure to import competition from low-income countries results in lower quality matches between workers and firms, using matched employer-employee data from Italy. I measure match quality as the match (worker-firm) fixed effect from a wage...

I examine how market access affects the output of agricultural crops and whether changes to output were driven by increasing concentration in production, using the late nineteenth American transportation network expansion as a natural experiment. I use detailed potential yield data from GAEZ-FAO...

China's growing prominence as a trade superpower has placed competitive pressure on manufacturing industries in Brazil, while simultaneously bolstering demand for its commodities. We investigate the effects of this so-called manufactures-for-commodities boom on Brazilian birth outcomes from...