The Importance of Business Travel for Trade: Evidence from the Liberalization of the Soviet Airspace

Do Exporters Import Gender Inequality?

“…As a broad metric of gender inequality in the destination countries, we use the well-established Gender Inequality Index (GII) developed by the United Nations. 3 We generate firm-year specific destination weights based on the share of the firm's annual sales directed to each destination, including nation-1 See the literature on the importance of business travels and in-person meetings, e.g., Bernard et al (2019), Battiston et al (2020), Söderlund (2020), andStartz (2021).…”