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Urbanization as a fundamental cause of development
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
I review the current theoretical and econometric literature on the economic
dynamics of urbanization and its relation to economic growth. I then report
research results on the short- and long-term impacts of urbanization ...
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 ...
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 ...
Determinantes de la morosidad: un estudio panel para el caso de las cajas municipales de ahorro y crédito del Perú, 2003-2010
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
In this paper we investigate empirically the determinants of credit default rates in the Peruvian system of Municipal Banks of Savings and Credit, using a dynamic fixed effects model with monthly data, over the period ...
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 ...
Technical efficiency in the Mexican manufacturing sector: a stochastic frontier approach
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
This paper analyzes the technical efficiency in the Mexican manufacturing
sector in which determinants and changes of the efficiency since NAFTA
(North American Free Trade Agreement) are studied using the Panel ...
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 ...
Teenage pregnacy in Mexico: evolution and consequences
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
We analyze the consequences of a teenage pregnancy event in the short and
long-run in Mexico. Using longitudinal and cross-section data, we match
females who got pregnant and those that did not based on a propensity
score. ...
Ciclo de vida humano y ciclo de vida urbano: urbanización y desarrollo económico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
El desarrollo humano y el desarrollo urbano juegan papeles esenciales e íntimamente interrelacionados en el desarrollo económico. La disponibilidad y el costo de los satisfactores de necesidades básicas de salud, educación, ...