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Mexico has experienced since 1995. Although fresh domestic bank lending dried up, tradable firms obtained financing in the …
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This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation …
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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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Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico's economic growth has been modest at … that the relation between openness and growth is not a simple one. Using standard trade theory, we find that Mexico has … continuing reforms, Chinese growth is likely to slow down sharply, perhaps leaving China at a level less than Mexico's real GDP …
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Objective: We evaluated the impact of Seguro Popular (SP), a program introduced in 2001 in Mexico primarily to finance …
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Using new survey data from Mexico, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of policy changes on the … flow of migrant labor from rural Mexico to the United States and test for differential effects of policy changes on male …
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Conditional cash transfer programs have spread to over 80 countries in the past two decades, but little is known about their long-term effects on the youth they target. This paper estimates the impact of childhood exposure to the Mexican program Progresa on economic outcomes in early adulthood...
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We assess long-term impacts of the Mexican conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on youth employment and earnings. We rely on the original random assignment into early and late treatment localities, which introduced CCTs in 1998 and 2000. We focus on children between 7 and 16 years of age in...
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manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the … order to reverse the increase in drug-related crime is not high. We estimate it to be approximately 0.1%of Mexico's GDP …
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