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Are land values related to ambient air pollution levels?: hedonic evidence from Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2016)
The average resident of Mexico City suffers unhealthy levels of air quality for the most part of the year. Nevertheless, the uneven distribution of firms and road traffic across the city, together with wind patterns and ...
A model of belief influence in large social networks
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
This paper develops a model of evolution of beliefs through communication in an exogenous social network. We
assume that the agents are Bayesian updaters and that the network enables them to listen to the opinion of ...
Job search, social interactions and labor market performance of low-skilled immigrants
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
In the last two decades, economists have recognized that immigrants make
extensive use of their immigrant networks when deciding to migrate and
during their stay in the host country. A way in which immigrants utilize ...
Optimal gasoline tax in developing, oil-producing countries: the case of Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This paper uses the methodology of Parry and Small (2005) to estimate the optimal gasoline tax for a less-developed, oil-producing country. The relevance of the estimation relies on the differences between less-developed ...
Incentives and competition in microfinance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
We develop a model of competition among socially motivated microfinance instituions (MFIs), where the MFIs offer repayment-based incentive contracts to credit agents. The agents gather information regarding a borrower, and ...
VAT Collection and social security contributions under tax evasion: is there a link?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
In this work we estimate the potential government revenue collection to
finance Levy (2008)’s proposal of financing social security with Value Added
Taxes, taking into account general equilibrium effects in a context ...
Estimation of a multiple equilibrium game with complete information: husband and wife labor force participation in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
Econometric models under complete information environment with game
theoretic foundations are used in this work to analyze husband and wife
labor force participation in Mexico. A mechanism of equilibrium's selection
was ...
Mercado y autoconsumo: vocación agropecuaria de los municipios de Guanajuato
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
La dinámica económica y competitiva de las actividades agropecuarias en
los municipios del estado de Guanajuato muestra que la mayoría se
desarrollan en atención al autoconsumo de la población cercana al
municipio. Pocos ...
Race and marriage in the labor market: a discrimination correspondence study in a developing country
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial ...
Poverty dynamics in rural Mexico: an analysis using four generations of poverty measurement
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
Drawing on four generations of poverty measurement, this paper uses panel
data from the 2002-2007 period to analyze rural poverty in Mexico. The
results show that almost three fifths of the surveyed households
experienced ...