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Closing the achievement gap in mathematics: evidence from a remedial program in Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-11-11)
This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention targeted at marginalized low-performance students in public secondary schools in Mexico City. The program consisted in offering free additional math courses, taught by ...
Market discipline: a review of the Mexican deposit market
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-04-15)
This paper studies the mechanisms of market discipline in the Mexican deposit market. It tests the hypothesis that low-quality banks pay higher interest rates on deposits, receive fewer deposits, and shift their deposit ...
Real exchange rate and manufacturing growth in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-07)
The manufacturing sectors in Latin America have been more affected by the currency over/undervaluation than their counterpart in industrialized economies. From a panel data set covering 39 countries and 22 manufacturing ...
Erratum to: Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-04-11)
New directions of trade for the agri-food industry: a disaggregated approach for different income countries, 1963–2000
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-06-05)
The principal objective of the present study is to explain the changes in the direction of agri-food trade flows during the second half of the twentieth century. Since the end of the Second World War, trade has tended to ...
Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-15)
Empirical evidence indicates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, households on less favored, or marginal, agricultural land form a “residual” pool of rural labor. Although the modern sector may be the source of dynamic ...
What determines adult cognitive skills?: influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-13)
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, ...
The effect of coca and FDI on the level of corruption in Bolivia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-05-28)
This paper analyzes the causes of corruption in contemporary Bolivia. It argues that, along with the well-documented observation that richer countries tend, on average, to be less corrupt than poorer ones, corruption is ...
Growth, bank credit, and inflation in Mexico: evidence from an ARDL-bounds testing approach
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-06-06)
This paper explores the long-run effects of inflation on the dynamics of private sector bank credit and economic growth in Mexico over the period 1969–2011. With an ARDL-type model, the statistical results suggest that the ...
Economic behavior of indigenous peoples: the Mexican case
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-08-20)
Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indigenous people ...