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The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges for public health policies
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases ...
Ideology, swing voters, and taxation
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Ideas about ethnicity, religion, and nationalism among others, which we label “ideology”, seem to affect the preferences of voters, political parties and finally, the equilibrium policy. In this paper we provide a ...
Ciclo de vida humano y ciclo de vida urbano: urbanización y desarrollo económico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
El desarrollo humano y el desarrollo urbano juegan papeles esenciales e íntimamente interrelacionados en el desarrollo económico. La disponibilidad y el costo de los satisfactores de necesidades básicas de salud, educación, ...
The rise and fall of income inequality in Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-02-13)
This paper presents evidence on a rise and fall in income inequality in Chile during the past two decades. We show that income inequality rises from 1990 to 2000 and then falls from 2000 to 2011. We perform simple but ...
Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-15)
Empirical evidence indicates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, households on less favored, or marginal, agricultural land form a “residual” pool of rural labor. Although the modern sector may be the source of dynamic ...
Democratic economics and improved governance: development policies for the G20
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
Democratic economics and improved governance can be guiding principles
for the newly formed G20, representing two thirds of the world’s population
and 88% of the world’s economy.
To get economies to work for the majorities ...
Entrada de supermercados en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
We estimate ordered probit models to analyze the determinants of
supermarket entry. We use reduced form models in which de profits are
function of observable variables. These variables influence cost and demand
and ...
La medición de la competitividad en México: ventajas y desventajas de los indicadores
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
En México, diversos índices han surgido utilizando diferentes unidades de análisis, conceptos de competitividad y métodos de medición de la misma. En la literatura empírica que se enfoca al ámbito Mexicano tenemos diferentes ...
VAT Collection and social security contributions under tax evasion: is there a link?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
In this work we estimate the potential government revenue collection to
finance Levy (2008)’s proposal of financing social security with Value Added
Taxes, taking into account general equilibrium effects in a context ...
A short episodic history of income distribution in Argentina
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-02-02)
In this paper, we use tax and household survey data to assess the history of income distribution in Argentina since the beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite ...