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children age 5-14 in Mexico. I accomplish this using a household fixed effects model and data from two waves of the Mexican …
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Mexico. The Seguro Popular (SP) was rolled out in 2002-2010 across municipalities, providing exogenous variation in access to …
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There is limited evidence on the labor market impact of diabetes, and existing evidence tends to be weakly identified. Making use of Mexican panel data to estimate individual fixed effects models, we find evidence for adverse effects of self-reported diabetes on employment probabilities, but not...
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Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade …
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To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to …, untaxed goods that are not substitutes for the taxed drinks. I analyze data from Mexico's Consumer Price Index program, using …
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statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed …
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This paper uses state-level data on migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the …
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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Since the September 11 attacks (9/11), the U.S. has seen a tightening of immigration policies. Previous studies find that stricter immigration enforcement has the unintended effect of pushing undocumented immigrants into self-employment. This paper builds on the literature to better understand...
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In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican …
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