China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of
world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about …

Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across
businesses are ubiquitous. This finding has shaped research agendas in a number of fields …

We study the effects of industrial robots on US labor markets. We show theoretically that
robots may reduce employment and wages and that their local impacts can be estimated …

This paper assesses different econometric approaches to working with count-based
outcome variables and other outcomes with similar distributions, which are increasingly …

We use detailed administrative data to study the adjustment of local labor markets to
industrial robots in Germany. Robot exposure, as predicted by a shift-share variable, is …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of US politics? Analyzing
multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential …

Economic theory suggests that market economies are likely to underprovide innovation
because of the public good nature of knowledge. Empirical evidence from the United States …

We investigate the impact of globalization on electoral outcomes in 15 Western European
countries over 1988–2007. We employ both official election results at the district level and …

Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000
and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the …

We show that support for the Leave option in the Brexit referendum was systematically
higher in regions hit harder by economic globalization. We focus on the shock of surging …