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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314153
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Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Violence : Evidence from Organized Crime, Suicides and Climate in Mexico
Baysan, Ceren - 2018
limited influence of a cash transfer program as well as comparison with both non-violent DTO crime and suicides, indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912542
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Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Brown, Ryan - 2017
and uncertainty brought on by unprecedented changes in local-area violent crime due to the war on drugs. Exploiting the … fact that the timing, virulence and spatial distribution of changes in violent crime were unanticipated, we establish the … that are fixed over time. As local-area violent crime increases, there is a rise in risk aversion that is distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962720
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022595
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314079
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314089
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141905
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141906