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-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of the criminal organization, on community violence in the context of Mexico's drug war …
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elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure …
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We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables strategy based on administrative delays in budgetary allocations...
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Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in …
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Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program …
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investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico - firms' wage reports to the …
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direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order …Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … schools built following the extension of compulsory education in Mexico from 6th to 9th grade in 1993. We show that raising …
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A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households, while accounting for the level of transfers from...
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Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade …
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terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases …
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