We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income … inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find …

the long term. We illustrate its features by applying it to the LAC5 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico …

-income Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It explores the role played by several …"" within Brazil and Peru- the estimated speeds of convergence for these countries more than double after controlling for … different subnational levels of steady state. For the latter countries and Chile, convergence is also higher after controlling …

This paper constructs new business cycle indices for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico based on common dynamic …

Mexico’s main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial …

We estimate the subnational employment and GDP multiplier of Brazil's 2020 federal cash transfers to vulnerable …

eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

emerging markets-the Nordics, India, Brazil, and Egypt-to try to answer this question. We highlight qualitatively in these … role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …