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Pass‑through and competition: the impact of soft drink taxes as seen through Mexican supermarkets
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-05-03)
In January 2014, Mexico addressed its epidemic of obesity by implementing an excise tax of 1 peso (1 MXN) per liter on soft drinks. This study evaluates the pass-through of the tax, the influence on the tax of competition ...
Frontiers in the economics of crime: lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-12-12)
Crime and violence generate many distortions in the allocation of private and public resources and engender economic and social costs that hinder development. In Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the most violent ...
Do changes in divorce legislation have an impact on divorce rates? The case of unilateral divorce in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-10-17)
In 2008, Mexico City was the first entity to approve unilateral divorce in Mexico. Since then, 17 states out of 31 have also moved to eliminate fault-based divorce. In this paper, I investigate the effect of the changes ...
Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: evidence from a supply–demand framework
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-12-11)
This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational level for sixteen Latin American countries over the period 1991–2013. We find a pattern of rather constant rise in the ...
Introduction: research at the policy frontier in Latin America (Volume II)
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-13)
The papers in this special issue take stock of the knowledge accumulated in certain areas—anti-poverty programs in the context of informality, crime, gender, urban transport systems, and road safety—and propose the next ...
Environmental regulation in Mexico: evidence from inspections and fines of major toxic polluters
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
In the Global South, local pollution problems have been studied mostly in the context of environmental inequity. This is the first paper to focus on regulatory actions taken by the Mexican environmental protection agency ...
Oil price, energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions: insight into sustainability challenges in Venezuela
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-10-04)
This study provides insight into sustainability challenges in Venezuela by exploring the causal interactions between oil price, energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Venezuela. Economic growth, government ...
An analysis of economic incentives to encourage organ donation: evidence from Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-07-10)
We perform a cost–benefit analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indifferent between donating and not donating a kidney ...
Gender stereotypes: the case of Mis profesores.com in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
In this study we analyze the extent of gender sterotypes in student evaluations of college professors on the internet site MisProfesores.com in Mexico. We download more than 600,000 evaluations for the period 2008-2018. ...
La cobertura de la reforma educativa en México: un asunto de medios y políticas
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019)
El propósito de este artículo es sistematizar la cobertura mediática que recibió la reforma educativa mexicana entre 2012 y 2015 en cuatro diarios impresos de circulación nacional. Los hallazgos contribuyen a conocer la ...