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This paper uses state-level data on migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the …
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trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …
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analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico …Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has …
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a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to … Mexico's indirect tax system. This leads to the identification of several possible pro-poor tax reforms in that country. It … also shows how the pro-poorness of a tax reform depends on one's conception of poverty as well as on the revenue and …
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This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while...
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The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...
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We analyze the role of food insurance on the housing markets of coastal cities. To do so we have assembled a parcel-level dataset including the universe of residential sales for three coastal urban areas in the United States – Miami-Dade county (2008-2015), New York city (2003-2016), and...
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The number of individuals forcibly displaced by conflicts has been rising in the past few decades. However, we know little about the dynamics - magnitude, timing, and persistence - of conflict-induced migration in the short run. We use novel high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration...
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consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …
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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self-employed. In the United States, however, rates of self-employment among … populations residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self-employment rates in the two countries. Within …
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