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Closing the achievement gap in mathematics: evidence from a remedial program in Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-11-11)
This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention targeted at marginalized low-performance students in public secondary schools in Mexico City. The program consisted in offering free additional math courses, taught by ...
Principal-agent assignment: implications for incentives and income distribution in tenancy relationships
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
I analyze a problem of assigning heterogeneous agents (tenants) to heterogeneous principals (landlords), where partnerships are subject to moral hazard in effort choice. The agents differ in wealth endowment and the ...
Environmental dependence of Mexican rural households: exploring the role of income, shocks, rules and roads
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
This paper examines the impact that household and village level characteristics have on environmental dependence and participation in resource extraction decisions. Contrary to previous studies that have used case studies ...
El papel de la tasa de interés real en el ciclo económico de México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
This paper presents a small open economy model to study the role of interest rate shocks in an emerging economy like Mexico. The interest rate is decomposed in two terms: an international rate and a country risk premia. ...
Purchasing power parity in Mexico since 1933
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-06-02)
A new approach to cointegration developed by Enders et al. (Cointegration tests using instrumental variables with an example of the U.K. demand for money. Unpublished working paper. http://wenders.people.ua.edu/time-seri ...
The effect of trade and foreign direct investment on inequality: do governance and macroeconomic stability matter?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2011)
Through dynamic panel data techniques and applying the estimated household income inequality data-set (Galbraith and Kum, 2003), this paper is aimed at exploring the effect of economic variables such as trade, foreign ...
Capital flows and private investment in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
Based on the so-called bounds testing approach, the paper studies the long-run effect of capital flows and the real exchange rate on Mexico’s private investment from 1988 through 2008, presenting two main results. First, ...
Do consumers really prefer formal credit to informal credit?: evidence from a pseudo-experimental design in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
The development of economic institutions characterizes economic growth and promotes efficiency. For example, formal credit institutions operate in the credit market in a more efficient way than informal money lenders because ...
Fuentes de sobrecostos y distorsiones en las empresas eléctricas públicas de México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2010)
En este artículo se describen y se tratan de cuantificar los efectos de algunos de los principales factores que han incidido en los costos de las empresas eléctricas públicas en México (pérdidas de energías, combustibles ...
Impacto de la descentralización de la educación básica y normal en México sobre el gasto en nómina magisterial de los estados, 1999-2004
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2010)
La descentralización de la educación básica y normal de 1992 modificó el esquema de negociación salarial entre las autoridades gubernamentales y las secciones sindicales del SNTE en los estados. Además, otro efecto fue la ...