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Time goes by so slowly (for those who wait): a field experiment in health care
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-02-19)
We exploit a unique field experiment to recover the willingness to pay (WTP) for shorter waiting times at a cataract detection clinic in Mexico City, and compare the results with those obtained through a hypothetical ...
Urban transport systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: lessons and challenges
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-14)
This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system interventions implemented ...
Delineating functional territories from outer space
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-05-16)
The delimitation of functional spatial units or functional territories is an important topic in regional science and economic geography, since the empirical verification of many causal relationships is affected by the size ...
Impact of upstream plant level pollution on downstream water quality: evidence from the Clean Water Act
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
This is the first study to assess whether pollutant inputs of major pint sources have a negative impact on downstream water quality, net of upstream pollution levels and controlling for location specific factors. We utilize ...
Intermediated attainment in OTC markets
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
We quantify the role of middlemen in the attainment of portfolio goals through trading in the fed funds market. To do so, we estimate the equivalent of matching function for this prominent over-the-counter (OTC) market. ...
Evidence-based gender equality policy and pay in Latin America and the Caribbean: progress and challenges
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-10-31)
This paper aims to identify the main contributing factors to the observed gender pay inequality in the last 10 years in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also aims to identify the main restrictions to design evidence-based ...
Road safety: challenges and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-18)
An estimated 1.3 million people die in traffic accidents each year worldwide and millions more are injured, with developing countries disproportionately affected. It is predicted that the number of global traffic deaths ...
The dynamic linkage between renewable energy, tourism, CO2 emissions, economic growth, foreign direct investment, and trade
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-02-19)
Because of the lack of econometric studies in relevance to the link between tourism and renewable energy, the goal of this study is to remedy this lack and to explore the causal relationships between renewable energy ...
Pollution and the choice of where to work and live within Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-04)
Global air pollution continues to increase across the world, and Mexico City is one of the most polluted cities in the western hemisphere. This paper considers the tradeoff between wages, housing characteristics, and air ...
Coordinated intermediation in the federal funds market
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
Intermediation motivates why some banks move further away from their implied target level during the fed funds trading window. I use partially directed search (PDS) where search decisión coordinate trade among two groups ...