Lustig, Nora; Martínez Pabón, Valentina - In: Estudios económicos 36 (2021) 1, pp. 7-25
We use microsimulation to estimate the short-term distributional consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. Although the potential increase in poverty is significant, we find that compared to their pre-shock income, those who lost the most are the moderate poor and the vulnerable to...