Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

We exploit an exogenous health shock--the birth of a child with a severe health condition--to investigate the causal … effect of a life shock on homelessness. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study that have been … augmented with information from hospital medical records, we find that the health shock increases the likelihood of homelessness …