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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 ...
Trend-cycle decomposition for Peruvian GDP: application of an alternative method
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-06)
Perron and Wada (J Monet Econ 56:749–765, 2009) propose a new method of decomposition of the GDP in its trend and cycle components, which overcomes the identification problems of models of unobserved components (UC) and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Erratum to: Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-04-11)
Greetings from the editor-in-chief
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-01-28)
Latin American Economic Review (LAER) is an international, refereed open-access journal dedicated to publishing in English original academic research on economics, with rigorous theoretical and methodological standards. ...
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, ...
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 ...
Do Mexicans care about air pollution?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-05-23)
Mexico has many major problems such as corruption, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, pollution, etc. Regarding pollution, politicians have established some programs trying to improve air quality in Mexico. But they do not ...