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It is widely accepted that the costs of under-pricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors –...
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This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the … have given shape to Chile's economy, especially during the uncertain times of the covid pandemic. Our Structural Vector … Autoregressive models suggest that Chile has been more prone to US-led shocks than Chinese shocks, even though its economy depends …
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on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive …
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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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income process. The empirical application of our framework using data on individual incomes from Mexico provides striking …
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We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly …
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returns to education in urban areas of Mexico during the past two decades (1987-2008). Applying Melly's (2005) quantile … role. This evidence seems to suggest that the changes in wage inequality in urban Mexico cannot be interpreted in terms of …
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This paper investigates the effect of the US Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) on the remitting patterns of Mexican immigrants. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP128), we find that a significant effect on remittance flows from illegal...
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supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, but not near California, which retained a pre-existing state … effect is contingent on political factors related to Mexico's democratic transition. Killings increased substantially more in …
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mainly focused on many cases in Africa and Asia, in this article we analyze the WII program in Mexico, which is one of the … uninsured poor. We also suggest that in Mexico the thresholds of the weather index be (continuously) re-calibrated in order to …
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