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Pensión proporcional y pensión universal: costo fiscal
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
The Federal Government in Mexico has implemented the provision of a non-contributory transfer under the program “Pensión Universal” for those workers who do not get a pension by Contributory Pension from the Saving System ...
Trust, information acquisition and financial decisions: a field experiment
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
We study the relationship between information acquisition and trust in financial decision making. A field experiment with a variation of the trust game was conducted with the partners of a financial cooperative located 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. ...
Ecological inference with entropy econometrics: using the Mexican census as a benchmark
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
Most regional empirical analyses are limited by the lack of data. Researchers have to use information that is structured in administrative or political regions which are not always economically meaningful. The non-availability ...
Production risk and adoption of irrigation technology: evidence from small-scale farmers in Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-07-21)
In most developing countries non-irrigation status often dominates adoption of traditional and modern irrigation technology. In this paper, we study the effect of production risk on irrigation technology choice among ...
A cross-country causal panorama of human development and sustainability
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
A broad summary of the theoretical literature on economic growth shows that this theory has transcended the neoclassical paradigm and that market rationality does not govern the human development process. Instead human ...
Regional economic analysis of internal migration in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
This paper studies how internal migration responds to trade openness. We seek to answer the following questions: Has trade liberalization changed the internal-migration pattern? And second, what characteristics facilitate ...
Infraestructura y cobertura universal en salud
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
En este documento analizamos la infraestructura y los recursos humanos existentes (hospitales, camas, quirófanos, médicos y enfermeras, entre otros), tanto en el sector público como en el privado, para determinar la capacidad ...
Compromises and incentives
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
We analyze a situation where a Principal does not necessarily have all the bargaining power while negotiating a contract with an Agent by studying a dynamic multi-objective moral hazard model with hidden action. We find ...
Are land values related to ambient air pollution levels?: hedonic evidence from Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2016)
The average resident of Mexico City suffers unhealthy levels of air quality for the most part of the year. Nevertheless, the uneven distribution of firms and road traffic across the city, together with wind patterns and ...