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Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
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Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program … would like to migrate but cannot afford to. If generalizable, they indicate that, as growth and anti-poverty and micro …
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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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unique survey of Mexican unauthorized immigrants interviewed upon their voluntary return or deportation to Mexico, almost a …
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We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ’s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …
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