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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
Faber, Benjamin - 2016
Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican microdata with a quantitative spatial equilibrium model and a new empirical strategy to study the long-term economic consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989735
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Regional Economic Development and Mexican Out-Migration
Unger, Kurt - 2021
This paper shows evidence of positive effects in the economic development of sending communitiesin Mexico due to … and low migration municipalities in the North and South of Mexico. As well, we find a positive and significant relation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211699
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Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
In this paper, I examine changes in the distribution of labor income across regions of Mexico during the country …-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family … of four at above-poverty consumption levels) in low-exposure states increased relative to high-exposure states by 7% …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065640
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Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor : The Impact of a Program in Mexico
De Hoyos, Rafael - 2019
This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867442
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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022592
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Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways : Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico
Lybbert, Travis J. - 2016
experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982040
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Another Brick on the Wall : On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being
Bando, Rosangela; Galiani, Sebastian; Gertler, Paul J. - 2022
living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved … (2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico … Peru and Mexico and add to the construction of external validity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238418
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122873
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Emigration During the French Revolution : Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
Franck, Raphael - 2017
During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the local elites whereas in others the pre-revolutionary social structure remained virtually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945603
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Geography and Economic Development
Gallup, John Luke; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Mellinger, Andrew D. - 2021
This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238940