We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …

This paper studies whether NAFTA contributed to the productivity convergence between Mexico and the US. Using data from … finds no clear evidence for NAFTA's contribution to the TFP convergence. These findings are in a sharp contrast with that of … the previous literature. The paper also finds that under NAFTA the industries which have smaller initial productivity gap …

Using NAFTA's effect on Mexico's exports as a natural experiment, this paper conducts an empirical analysis on the … the common prediction, i.e., NAFTA's positive impact on new goods exports from Mexico to the US. The paper then proposes a …

specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and …

North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … accounted for by a small number of plants which were larger and more productive before the implementation of NAFTA and expanded … and became more productive following the implementation of NAFTA. Plants that exported before NAFTA and export …

This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis … 1999 in industries liberalized relatively rapidly by NAFTA, launched in 1994, than in industries liberalized relatively …