In January 2014, Mexico addressed its epidemic of obesity by implementing an excise tax of 1 peso (1 MXN) per liter on … soft drinks. This study evaluates the pass-through of the tax, the influence on the tax of competition among different … stores, and the after-tax price dispersion. Using an unbalanced panel of weekly prices for 553 stores throughout Mexico, we …

uninsured households, crowded-out private transfers in Mexico. Using data from the National Household Income and Expenditure … sequential roll-out throughout Mexico. The results show that Seguro Popular reduced on average a household's probability of …'s effects are only statistically significant for private transfers originating within Mexico. In addition, Seguro Popular had a …

This paper analyzes whether Mexico's de-facto non-contributory health insurance program Seguro Popular had an effect on …

I assess the impact that pharmaceutical innovation had on cancer mortality in Mexico during the period 2003-2013, by … the standards of the World Health Organization, new cancer drugs have been very cost-effective in Mexico. The contribution …. Only half as many new cancer drugs were launched in Mexico during 2010-2014 as were launched in the US. In addition, when …

The paper studies the effects of the real exchange rate (RER) on capital accumulation in Mexico in the period since the … reached by previous studies of Mexico, and to clarify the potential role of the real exchange rate as either barrier or engine …

In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the … contributor to poverty reduction in Mexico. In the second part of our analysis, we compile a unique panel dataset at the state …

In 2008, Mexico City was the first entity to approve unilateral divorce in Mexico. Since then, 17 states out of 31 have … legislation on divorce rates in Mexico, given the remarkable growth of divorce rates over the past few decades in the country, but … legislation has proved to be an effective tool in modifying family structures in Mexico, so it is important to be aware of the …

Global air pollution continues to increase across the world, and Mexico City is one of the most polluted cities in the … Mexico City which includes the actual transacted value of the house, house features, household socioeconomic characteristics …

nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping job ads from a … leading job search website. As in the U.S., the number of vacancies in Mexico declined sharply during the lockdown (38 percent … sum, we find no evidence of a significant or permanent change in labor demand during the pandemic in Mexico. …