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We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
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local wages. Mots-clés : Migration, Roy model, migrant self-selection, subjective data, shocks, Mexico …
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By focusing on human capital investment, the Mexican Oportunidades program will influence the economic choices of the rural poor. To understand how beneficiaries may alter their behavior as a result of this intervention, this paper uses administrative data to analyze the economic activities of...
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El objetivo es analizar el caso de la empresa Polaroid de México, en un afán de comprender cómo se estructura el poder …
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, and employment effects on the local and national economies. To this end we will be looking at Mexico where export … processing zones are very developed. Mexico seems an appropriate case study to assess to which extent the predictions of economic …
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This study investigates the differences between intensive technology and low-tech firms located in Mexico, focusing on … results show that while Mexico is not yet a fully developed technological country. Indeed, technologically intensive firms are … rare cases. Mexico is progressing rapidly towards a technologically developed country in some sectors. Moreover, Mexico …
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este tipo de ciudades a nivel de España y México, atendiendo fundamentalmente a su caracterización en términos turísticos …
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Manzanillo en México respectivamente; elegidos por manejar el mayor volumen de carga comercial de cada país. El estudio se …
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The literature has shown that aid and trade or aid and migration are not independent from each other: aid can be provided for relaxing migration pressures or donors can tie aid in order to increase their exports to developing countries. This finding can be generalized to other donors' policies:...
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efficiency of the matching technology; generalists exacerbate firms' coordination problems. We then calibrate the model on the …
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