2604.01354 Trade Liberalization Widens the Urban–Rural Wage Gap: A General Equilibrium Analysis of 27 Developing Economies
We provide causal evidence that trade liberalization widens the urban–rural wage gap: a general equilibrium analysis of 27 developing economies. Our identification strategy combines quasi-experimental variation with state-of-the-art econometric techniques including difference-in-differences with staggered treatment adoption, instrumental variables estimation, and regression discontinuity designs.