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Race and marriage in the labor market: a discrimination correspondence study in a developing country
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial ...
Why did wage inequality decrease in Mexico after NAFTA?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
Contrary to what happened before NAFTA, wage inequality in Mexico decreased after 1994. This paper investigates the forces behind the post-NAFTA decrease in wage inequality. Using a quantile decomposition, I show that the ...
¿Quiénes son los NiNis en México?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
The objetive of this article is to characterize the population between 15 and
29 years old who does not attend school and does not work (NiNi, as they
are know in Mexico). We used data from the 1990, 2000 and 2010 Cesuses
of ...
Does corruption affect cooperation?: a laboratory experiment
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-09-13)
In this paper, we analyze the nature of cooperation in different corruption regimes. In a laboratory experiment with university students in Mexico, individuals play first a corruption game and then a public goods game. The ...
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 ...
Teenage pregnacy in Mexico: evolution and consequences
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
We analyze the consequences of a teenage pregnancy event in the short and
long-run in Mexico. Using longitudinal and cross-section data, we match
females who got pregnant and those that did not based on a propensity
score. ...
Social protection programs and employment: the case of Mexico’s Seguro Popular program
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
Mexico created Seguro Popular in 2002 with the goal of providing free or subsidized health insurance coverage to 47 million uninsured people by the year 2013. Hence, one unintended consequence of the program could be an ...
Evolución de la brecha salarial de género en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
El artículo analiza la brecha salarial de género en México para el periodo 1990-2010 utilizando los Censos de Población. En promedio, la brecha salarial ha disminuido en el periodo. En 2010, la brecha salarial de género ...