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Environmental justice and toxic releases in urban Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
In this paper we present empirical evidence that major toxic releasing facilities in Mexico pollute more in poorer or marginalized neighborhoods. We are the first to investigate “environmental (in)justice” behavior utilizing ...
Versioning with advertising in social networks under uniform distributions of valuations
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
This paper explores a second-degree discrimination scheme where a platform sells a two-version online service to a group of consumers engaged in a social network. The social network is randomly generated and features ...
Discrimination through versioning with advertising in social networks
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
This article investigates a second-degree discrimination scheme where an online platform sells a two-version service to consumers involved in a random network. In particular, consumers choose between purchasing a premium ...
The legacy of war dynamics on state capacity: evidence from 19th century Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
The literature on conflict is ambiguous about the impact of war on state capacity building. We zoom in on the war of independence in Mexico (1810–1821) to uncover that the effect of war on long-term state capacity depends ...
A natural experiment on US clean water act monitoring and compliance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
In this paper we utilize the random treatment of reduction of complete stoppage of ambient water quality monitoring, to show that major polluters increase their pollution discharges relative to effluent limits in the ...