We measure export participation rates in the U.S. manufacturing sector using a new administrative dataset and compare them to participation rates constructed from the commonly used Census of Manufactu
The data on administrative approval reform are sourced from the county-level administrative approval center database developed by Professor Xu Xianxiang’s research team at Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen
This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade reforms, the years 1986-2000, altered the distribution of education. I use varia