Despite the central role of firewood in the development of the early American economy, prices for this energy fuel are absent from official government statistics and the scholarly literature. This paper presents the most comprehensive dataset of firewood prices in the United States compiled to...

This paper studies how liberalising outward foreign direct investments (FDI) affects manufacturers' engagement in global production and their domestic workers' labor market outcomes. Focusing on a liberalisation policy in 2001 by the government of Taiwan that allowed 122 electronic products to...

This paper studies how liberalising outward foreign direct investments (FDI) affects manufacturers’ engagement in global production and their domestic workers’ labor market outcomes. Focusing on a liberalisation policy in 2001 by the government of Taiwan that allowed 122 electronic products...