secondary schools in Mexico City. The program consisted in offering free additional math courses, taught by undergraduate … schools in Mexico City. We exploit the information available in all students' (treated and not treated by the program …

The growth of potential GDP in Mexico is not fast enough to narrow the income gap with other OECD countries at a … Paper relates to the 2005 OECD Economic Survey of Mexico (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/mexico). …

. Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purpose of evaluating the impact of the … PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the regression discontinuity …

Despite progress over the past two decades Mexico?s health and education indicators remain well below the average of …

This paper looks at the incidence of fiscal policy on the income distribution for Chile and Mexico. Notably by … fiscal policy on reducing income inequality. The contrast between the estimates for Chile and Mexico and the rest of OECD … income inequality reduction and shows how these results differ across countries. Our results for Chile and Mexico suggest …

This study investigates the effect of an economic shock due to crop loss on health outcomes of children in rural Mexico …, Mexico has to invest more to combat poverty and provide mechanisms to help households to cope with sudden economic losses …. -- Economic shock ; crop loss ; child health ; Mexico …

administrative data from Mexico and two different empirical strategies, our results indicate that mothers' long-term exposure to …