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Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher …
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the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …
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teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …
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Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program …
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We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables strategy based on administrative delays in budgetary allocations...
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elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure …
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This paper investigates the effect of the US Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) on the remitting patterns of Mexican immigrants. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP128), we find that a significant effect on remittance flows from illegal...
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Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers' incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...
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mainly focused on many cases in Africa and Asia, in this article we analyze the WII program in Mexico, which is one of the … uninsured poor. We also suggest that in Mexico the thresholds of the weather index be (continuously) re-calibrated in order to …
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Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in …
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