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Arte y espiritualidad: orígenes y fronteras
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015)
Una introducción a la prehistoria
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015)
"Liberating" territory: an empirical examination of the determinants of local control by Sendero Luminoso
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2015)
One of the most influential independent variables in the contemporary analysis of civil war is rebels’ territorial control. And yet, few research efforts have dealt directly with its determinants. In this paper I offer a ...
Atención a la población infantil migrante: ¿qué programas y qué recursos?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Administración Pública, 2015)
The purpose of this document is to analyze the operative rules of eight federal programs that address, either directly or indirectly, the education of child migrant population in Mexico. Attention to this especific population ...
Racionalidad burocrática: prolegómenos para un modelo de eficiencia en las organizaciones públicas
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Administración Pública, 2015)
In order to understand the problem of efficiency in public organizations, it seems appropriate to poke through Max Weber’s concepts about the means-ends rationality. Theoretically, two phenomena are clearly related to the ...
US–Mexico border tourism and day trips: an aberration in globalization?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-26)
We examine the influence of two distinct regime changes in US border security on the number of persons traveling from the US into Mexico on day trips. In contrast to increases in overall US tourism to Mexico and rapidly ...
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 ...
Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public policy priorities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region in the developing world. Its urbanization rate of almost 80 % is comparable to that of high-income countries. However, cities in the region are struggling to ...