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Poverty and Economic Behavior : Gambling at Social Security Paydays
Dahan, Momi - 2019
The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two...
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Inefficiency in Social Security Trust Funds Forecasts
Lahiri, Kajal; Zhang, Junyan; Zhao, Yongchen - 2021
We examine forecast accuracy and efficiency of the Social Security Administration’s projections for cost rate, trust fund balance, trust fund ratio made during 1980-2020 with horizons up to 95 years. We find that the reported deterioration in the accuracy of the forecasts during 2010’s has...
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Postponing Retirement and Social Security in a Two Sector Model
Sen, Partha - 2021
Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) social security schemes in the OECD countries are facing solvency problems, as people are living longer and birth rates have declined. Postponing the full retirement age (FRA), when retirees are entitled to full pension, has been proposed as a solution. This effectively...
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Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
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Maquiladoras and informality: A mixed blessing
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - 2011
Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a … market outcomes in Mexico. We develop a heterogeneous firm model with imperfect labor markets that captures salient features …
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Spotlight on Spatial Environmental Policy Spillovers : An Econometric Analysis of Wastewater Treatment in Mexican Municipalities
Hecker, Lutz Philip - 2018
Mexico. However, wastewater treatment levels also differ greatly among the 2,456 Mexican municipalities. We apply spatial …
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2019
Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … significant distortive effects of the Mexican Drug War on domestic industrial development in Mexico and suggest that the Drug War …
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The Impact of NAFTA on Prices and Competition : Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Plants
Kikkawa, Ayumu Ken - 2019
This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants’ prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then...
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An Analysis of the Impact of Public Infrastructure on Productivity Performance of Mexican Industry
Mamatzakis, Emmanuel C. - 2021
It has been frequently quoted in the literature that one decisive cause of the productive performance of an economy might be infrastructure investment. This paper provides a dual profit theoretical framework of measuring the effects of infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316826
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NAFTA and Drug-Related Violence in Mexico
Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022
We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased …
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