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How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More
Bachas, Pierre - 2017
We study an at-scale natural experiment in which debit cards are given to cash transfer recipients who already have a bank account. Using administrative account data and household surveys, we find that beneficiaries accumulate a savings stock equal to 2 percent of annual income after two years...
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Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Brown, Ryan - 2017
that affect those attitudes are not fully understood. Using longitudinal survey data collected in Mexico before and during …
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Border Walls
Allen, Treb - 2018
What are the economic impacts of a border wall between the United States and Mexico? We use detailed data on bilateral … wall between the United States and Mexico from 2007 to 2010 affected migration. We use these effects to estimate a general …
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Information and Bargaining Through Agents : Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Labor Courts
Sadka, Joyce - 2018
with ongoing cases to analyze sources of dysfunction in Mexico's largest labor court. Providing the parties with …
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Deterring Illegal Entry : Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions
Bazzi, Samuel - 2018
Over 2008 to 2012, the U.S. Border Patrol enacted new sanctions on migrants apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Using administrative records on apprehensions of Mexican nationals that include fingerprint-based IDs and other details, we detect if an apprehended migrant is subject...
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Weight Gains from Trade in Foods : Evidence from Mexico
Giuntella, Osea - 2018
In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican …
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Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity : Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Hastings, Justine S. - 2010
We use responses to a survey and experiment with participants in Mexico's privatized social security system to examine …
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Sudden Stops, Sectoral Reallocations, and the Real Exchange Rate
Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2010
the Mexican economy, and use it to analyze Mexico's 1994-95 crisis. When subjected to a sudden stop, the model accounts …
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The Great Mexican Emigration
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor …
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Openness and Industrial Responses in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2010
effect of NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex … new products and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an …
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