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Does trade imply convergence?: analyzing the effect of NAFTA on the local convergence in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
Regional Economics and Economic Growth focus on the question of whether trade leads to a greater concentration of economic activity. Yet little empirical work has assessed the regional convergence impacts of trade. Therefore ...
Estimating the technical efficiency of Mexican states
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
In this paper we estimate the technical efficiency of Mexican states using several stochastic production frontier models. The empirical section uses panel data over the period 1988-2008. A distinctive feature of the paper ...
Do industries pollute more in poorer neighborhoods?: evidence from toxic releasing plants in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
This paper provides the first, direct evidence that poorer communities in Mexico are associated with higher toxics pollution releases. We utilize previously unused, self-reported, plant-level annual database (from 2004 to ...
Is crime in Mexico a disamenity?: evidence from a hedonic valuation approach
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas, División de Economía, 2015)
Since Roback (1982)’s seminal work, the literature has evaluated the role of the amenities to equilibrate the regional differentials of nominal wages and prices. While these studies generally find evidence for traditional ...
Pobreza, desigualdad y aprovechamiento de recursos naturales: aproximaciones metodológicas desde la economía
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
This document describes some of the methodologies used in economics to analyze the relationship between use of natural resources, poverty and inequality. Data from a representative sample of rural households from the ...
Innovación, competitividad y rentabilidad en los sectores de la economía mexicana
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Division de Economía, 2015)
After a brief review of contemporary Mexican policy on science and technology we locate innovation experiences of firms in the context of innovation systems and market failures. Given the purpose of competitiveness as ...
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 ...
Inclusión financiera y el desarrollo económico de México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas, División de Economía, 2015)
There is a historical relationship between economic development and a proper access to financial services. In this paper we test the hypothesis that the positive relationship among the number of financial institutions, the ...
Alfabetismo financiero y matemáticas: un estudio entre jóvenes preparatorianos en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
Este trabajo analiza la incidencia de las habilidades matemáticas en el alfabetismo financiero en jóvenes mexicanos entre 15 y 18 años de edad asistiendo a la escuela en la Ciudad de México y el Estado de México. Nuestros ...