This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans … important as lack of funding for new investment in capital for rural producers in Mexico. Producers benefit from easing their …

and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … dominant elite at the regional and country level is the same and/or the industrialization shock is sufficiently high. If … 19th century France and Spain. …

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

(manufacturers, merchants) are most active in lobbying for industrialization. Third, industrial concentration increases progressive … lobbying for industrialization in the British data. …

Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising … States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and … Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration …

income process. The empirical application of our framework using data on individual incomes from Mexico provides striking …

with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to … test for cointegrating relationships corresponding to the patterns predicted by theory. We confirm episodes of expansion of …