How does globalization affect the income gaps between the rich and the poor? This paper presents a new piece of empirical evidence showing that access to the global market, either through exporting or through multinational production, is associated with a higher executive-to-worker pay ratio...

This paper evaluates the distributional impacts of transportation networks in China.We show that the quality of roads and railroads vary substantially over time andspace, and ignoring these variations biases the estimates of travel time. To account forquality differences, we construct a new...