Figure 1.
Aggregate U.S. merchandise exports, sub‐Saharan Africa countries, 2005–2016. Treatment Group 1 consists of three countries with epidemic transmission of 2014 Ebola: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Treatment Group 2 consists of three countries with limited cases of 2014 Ebola: Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. The comparison group consists of 40 sub‐Saharan Africa countries without cases of 2014 Ebola. Shaded area denotes 2014, the year of peak Ebola virus transmission.