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Socioeconomic status and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of 8 large Latin American cities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-23)
This study analyzes mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic for 8 large Latin American cities. Indicators of mobility by socioeconomic status (SES) are generated by combining geo-referenced mobile phone information ...
Coffee in crisis offers a lesson in resilience: evidence from Guatemala
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
The idea that resilience plays a role in mitigating the effects of disaster and climate change is becoming widespread across the development community. Consequently, the concept of resilience has been translated into ...
Financial exclusion and financial literacy: evidence from Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
This study seeks to contribute to the understanding of the underlying factors that can explain the high levels of financial exclusion that persist in Mexico, with focus on the role of financial literacy. Our analysis is ...
Technical efficiency, production risk, and sharecropping: the case of rice farming in Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
Contractual relationships regarding land tenure in agriculture are diverse. From formal systems such as landowner and fixed rent, sharecropping emerges as an alternative in which the owner of the land shares the benefits ...
The productivity of Colombian public schools and its determinants from a value-added perspective, 2014–2019: an empirical analysis
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2024-04-07)
Identifying how efficient public schools are – that is, the academic performance they can generate with the available inputs – is relevant information for designing public policies to improve education quality. Using a ...
Estimating the reservation wage across city groups in Colombia: a stochastic frontier approach
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2024-01-30)
We use the stochastic frontier approach to estimate the reservation wage across different cities in Colombia. Using the Household Surveys from 2008–2019 for 23 urban cities, we find empirical evidence supporting search ...
Term premium dynamics and its determinants: the Mexican case
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2024-03-20)
We estimate the term premium implicit in 10-year Mexican government bonds from 2004 to 2019, and analyze the main determinants explaining its dynamics. We decompose the long-term interest rate into its two components: the ...
Population and economic growth in Mexico: regime dynamics and causality
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2024-03-20)
This paper examines the joint dynamics of population and economic performance using panel data from the 32 Mexican states throughout the period 1940-2020. The analysis considers the population growth rate and per capita ...
The effects of educated leaders on policy and politics: quasi-experimental evidence from Brazil
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2024-05-13)
We examine whether and how the educational background of political leaders matters for policy choices and outcomes. Using data on municipalities in Brazil from 2000–2008, we estimate the effects of electing a more educated ...