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Is crime in Mexico a disamenity?: evidence from a hedonic valuation approach
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas, División de Economía, 2015)
Since Roback (1982)’s seminal work, the literature has evaluated the role of the amenities to equilibrate the regional differentials of nominal wages and prices. While these studies generally find evidence for traditional ...
Pobreza, desigualdad y aprovechamiento de recursos naturales: aproximaciones metodológicas desde la economía
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
This document describes some of the methodologies used in economics to analyze the relationship between use of natural resources, poverty and inequality. Data from a representative sample of rural households from the ...
Product competition and R&D investment under spillovers within full or partial collusion games
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-04-29)
The paper investigates firms’ behavior and outcomes (levels of cost-reducing R&D, output, profit and welfare in equilibrium) in a differentiated duopoly with process innovation. One of the important features in this paper ...
A robust Bayesian dynamic linear model for Latin-American economic time series: ‘‘the Mexico and Puerto Rico cases’’
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-07-28)
The traditional time series methodology requires at least a preliminary transformation of the data to get stationarity. On the other hand, robust Bayesian dynamic models (RBDMs) do not assume a regular pattern or stability ...
Innovación, competitividad y rentabilidad en los sectores de la economía mexicana
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Division de Economía, 2015)
After a brief review of contemporary Mexican policy on science and technology we locate innovation experiences of firms in the context of innovation systems and market failures. Given the purpose of competitiveness as ...
Intergenerational transmission of education: the relative importance of transmission channels
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-01-20)
This paper aims at quantifying the relative importance of different transmission channels generating the high levels of intergenerational correlations in education, especially in Latin America. A simultaneous equations ...
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 ...
Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay: main drivers and policy implications
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-05-05)
The aim of this research is to explore the existence of inefficient behaviors in public high schools in Uruguay and identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 2012 databases. ...
Does access to free health insurance crowd-out private transfers?: evidence from Mexico’s Seguro Popular
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-09-24)
This study examines whether Seguro Popular, a free-of-charge publicly provided health insurance program for otherwise uninsured households, crowdedout private transfers in Mexico. Using data from the National Household ...
Introduction to research at the policy frontier in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-10)