The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

We especially thank Allison Devlin for all of her important contributions to the analysis presented in this paper. We also thank our discussants at conference presentations for very helpful comments and suggestions: David Autor, Teresa Fort, Keith Head, and Brian McCaig. We appreciate helpful comments and suggestions from Nate Baum-Snow, Winnie Chan, Gordon Hanson, Ig Horstmann, Felix Koenig, Kory Kroft, James Lake, Thomas Lemieux, Kevin Lim, Phil Luck, Rene Morissette, David Price, John Ries, Kadee Russ, Lowell Taylor, Daniel Trefler, Eric Verhoogen, and seminar participants at the 2021 ASSA Meetings, 2020 Atlanta Fed International Economics Workshop, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dartmouth, EIIT, FGV Sao Paulo, Georgetown, Groningen, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), Maryland, the NBER Summer Institute (2021), the Nordic International Trade Conference (2020), and Syracuse. We especially thank Yukman Cheung, Danny Leung, and Beryl Li at Statistics Canada and Shenjie Chen and Emily Yu at Global Affairs Canada for all their help, without which this project would never have gotten off the ground. We are also indebted to Philippe Kabore at Statistics Canada for timely and professional disclosure. We thank Global Affairs Canada for generous funding. Results in this paper have been screened by Statistics Canada to ensure that no confidential results have been released. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Global Affairs Canada or Statistics Canada. All remaining mistakes are those of the authors alone. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.