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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality? Measuring the impact of Mexico's seguro popular

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pages Serra, … - 2011

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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Unemployment insurance in high informality countries

Espino, Emilio; Sanchez, Juan M. - 2013

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate alternative schemes to provide insurance for unemployed...

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Do larger school grants improve educational attainment? Evidence from urban Mexico

Araujo, M. Caridad; Martínez, María Adelaida; … - 2018

expected future income from additional schooling exceeds the cost of the grants by a ratio of more than two-toone. The patterns …

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¿Se mejora la escolaridad con becas de mayor monto? La evidencia de las localidades urbanas de México

Araujo, M. Caridad; Martínez, María Adelaida; … - 2018

expected future income from additional schooling exceeds the cost of the grants by a ratio of more than two-toone. The patterns …

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Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular

Aterido, Reyes - 2011

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Heterogeneous Impacts in PROGRESA

Djebbari, Habiba; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2021

The "common effect" model in program evaluation assumes that all treated individuals have the same impact from a program. Our paper contributes to the recent literature that tests and goes beyond the common effect model by investigating impact heterogeneity using data from the experimental...

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Remittances and the Impact on Crime in Mexico

Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Osorio, René - 2014

This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is …

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Cross-Border Spillover : U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico

Dube, Arindrajit - 2013

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …

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Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence : Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

Lindo, Jason M. - 2015

This study considers the effects of the kingpin strategy, an approach to fighting organized crime in which law …

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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Utar, Hale - 2022

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005 2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the...

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