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Non-communicable chronic diseases in the Americas: an economic perspective on health policies
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) are amongst the principal
burdens of disease in both developed and underdeveloped countries. The
main causes of these illnesses are well known. They are tobacco use,
unhealthy ...
El efecto del alfabetismo financiero en el ahorro para el retiro en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
In this paper, we analyze whether it is possible to increase the retirement saving through financial literacy in Mexico. With information from the Mexican Family Life Survey 2005 (MxFLS-2) we build a financial literacy ...
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 ...
Optimal transmission planning under the Mexican new electricity market
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2016)
This paper addresses electricity transmission planning under the new industry and institutional structure of the Mexican electricity market, which has engaged in a deep reform process after decades of a state-owned ...
The real exchange rate, regime changes and volatility shifts
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
We make use of a data set that is both long span and high frequency to test for purchasing power parity while allowing for a structural shift in the volatility of the Mexico-US bilateral real exchange rate. The Kim, Leybourne ...
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 ...
The technology gradient in the market economy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2017)
Technological creation and mass production are usually associated with large-scale production, while technological absorption is found more often in small-scale competitive firms. Thus, the link between the innovative and ...
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, ...