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How does explicit discrimination in job ads interact with discrimination in Callbacks?: evidence from a correspondence study in Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas, División de Economía, 2015)
Job ads often narrow their searches using gender or age requirements. These narrow searches
do not rule out the existence of post-application discrimination. We test for such biases using
a correspondence experiment in ...
Cooperation among strangers in the presence of defectors: an experimental study
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
Does the rotten apple spoils his companions? This is the question we
analyze in the context of a repeated population game with behavioral types.
Our experimental results show that the inclusion of a non-cooperative
player ...
Drug-related violence and forced migration from Mexico to the United States
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
When President Felipe Calderón took office he declared a war on drug lords,
thus initiating a war of attrition which has claimed more than 40,000 lives in
the last 5 years. In this paper I document how this escalation ...
Elite capture of democratic politics: the role of social identity
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
In the present paper we uncover a novel mechanism through which a minority can gain a disproportionate power in a perfectly functioning democracy. In our model, a government elected by majority within a two party democracy, ...
Taxes, transfers and the distribution of employment in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
The informal sector accounts for a substantial fraction of employed
population in Mexico and other Latin American countries. In this paper we
study the interaction between the tax and transfers system and the size ...
Financial development and growth volatility: time series evidence for Mexico and the United States
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
This paper explores the influences of financial deepening on growth and its
volatility. Following a review of the theoretical literature that has attempted
to explain these relationships, the paper presents time series ...
El proceso de convergencia regional en México: un análisis de la dinámica de transición bajo heterogeneidad estatal y temporal
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2016)
Este estudio utiliza la metodología de Phillips y Sul (2007) a fin de determinar si el PIB percápita de los Estados de la República Mexicana converge al sendero de crecimiento nacional y si es posible encontrar grupos o ...
Trivariate probit with double sample selection: theory and application
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
We develop the trivariate probit model in which the sample incidentally truncates twice —i.e. in the first and in the second equations—, which is not solved in the literature. The model is analogue to the so called Bivariate ...
Regional economic analysis of internal migration in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
This paper studies how internal migration responds to trade openness. We seek to answer the following questions: Has trade liberalization changed the internal-migration pattern? And second, what characteristics facilitate ...
Trade flows and volatility of their fundamentals: some evidence from Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
In this paper we investigate the effects of volatility of the fundamental determinants of trade on trade flows in Mexico during the period 1991-2008. Our import and export functions are based on the well known imperfect ...