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Educational attainment of indigenous children in México: a problem of family resources or language barriers
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
This paper analyzes the educational attainment of indigenous children in Mexico. Using large household data sets from rural communities where a majority of indigenous people live in Mexico, we analyze the potential explanatory ...
Who benefits from social spending in Mexico?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
El trabajo presenta un análisis de incidencia de beneficios del gasto social en México, utilizando medidas comunes de progresividad absoluta y relativa, e introduciendo nuevas medidas basadas en normas de igualdad de ...
Política industrial para el desarrollo económico de México: análisis de los sectores clave
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo, 2024)
Las industrias electrónica, farmacéutica, petroquímica y metalmecánica han desempeñado un papel crucial en el desarrollo manufacturero de México. Además, son industrias con altos encadenamientos como proveedores y demandantes ...
Life expectancy conditions the economic growth distribution
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We show that when the distribution of economic growth is classified by life expectancy, significant and changing structural features emerge. The period 1960-1980 shows a non-linear dependence of average growth on life ...
The cross-country distribution of life expectancy is twin-peaked
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
We show that the cross-country distribution of life expectancy for the period 1960-1997 is an evolving twin-peaked distribution with a diminishing, dynamically invariant lower peak. This may imply the presence of a ...
The political economy of protectionism: the evolution of labor productivity, international competitiveness, and tariffs in the Mexican textile industry, 1900-1950
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
This paper compares prices, costs, and productivity levels c.1911 of a Mexican textile mil with those of mills in the United States and Great Britain and studies the evolution of textile tariff protection. Surprisingly by ...
Revolución en la comercialización y producción de textiles en México durante el porfiriato
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
In the United States and Europe, the coming of modern transportation and comummications brought about a major transformation in the institutions of capitalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, when enterprises ...
Divergences and convergences in human development
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
I conduct a cross-country analysis of the human development index (HDI)
components, income, life expectancy, literacy and gross enrolment ratios,
using Gray and Purser’s 1970-2005 quinquennial database for 111
countries. ...
The technology gradient in the market economy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2017)
Technological creation and mass production are usually associated with large-scale production, while technological absorption is found more often in small-scale competitive firms. Thus, the link between the innovative and ...
Economic development and non-communicable chronic diseases
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
This article outlines the economics of non communicable chronic diseases (NCDs), necessary for designing evidence-based health policies to reduce the prevalence of NCDs. The main risk factors of NCDs are manmade: abuse of ...