The trade effects of information provision about forced and child labor

The issue of child and forced labor employed in the production goods has been at a forefront public debate recent decades with millions victims nearly all countries being affected. This paper examines whether information about use affects their imports to United States. I investigate this question using largest naming shaming strategy ever implemented world-wide: inclusion on U.S. government’s list produced or labor. aims provide impartial consumers firms broad range goods, contrast previously used measures literature which have tended be more emotionally driven boycotts labelling campaigns specific goods. finds that such provision decreased States believed made results are mainly by closer point consumption, where might reasonably expected penalize products thought rely labor, while no effect was found for intermediate Thus, strategies may efficient policy instruments disincentivizing purchase certain