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An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2013
this paper the authors use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the … PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the Regression Discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559811
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
Skoufias, Emmanuel; di Maro, Vincenzo - 2012
examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time …, and they link these effects to the impact of the program on poverty. Using the experimental design of PROGRESA … leisure time. Their findings on adult work incentives are reinforced further by the result that PROGRESA leads to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553795
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Foreign Bank Acquisitions and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico
Beck, Thorsten; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad - 2012
impact on banking outreach using newly gathered data for Mexico, where foreign bank participation rose from 2 percent to 83 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552445
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Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare
Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William - 2012
This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554113
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Enforceability of Labor Law : Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico
Kaplan, David S.; Sadka, Joyce - 2012
The authors analyze lawsuits involving publicly-appointed lawyers in a labor court in Mexico to study how a rigid law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552269
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Risk-Based Supervision of Pension Funds : A Review of International Experience and Preliminary Assessment of the First Outcomes
Brunner, Gregory; Hinz, Richard; Rocha, Roberto - 2012
description of pension supervision in Australia, Denmark, Mexico and the Netherlands, and an initial evaluation of the results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552278
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Mental Health Patterns and Consequences : Results from Survey Data in Five Developing Countries
Das, Jishnu; Do, Quy-Toan; Friedman, Jed - 2012
surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552292
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An Empirical Analysis of Mexican Merger Policy
Avalos, Marcos; De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2012
A newly created dataset including 239 decisions made by the Mexican Federal Competition Commission on horizontal mergers between 1997 and 2001 is used to estimate the different factors affecting the Commission's resolution. The paper approximates the decision making process using two different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552310
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License to Sell : The Effect of Business Registration Reform on Entrepreneurial Activity in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam - 2012
identification strategy exploits the fact that a recent business registration reform in Mexico was introduced in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552321
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Empowering Parents to Improve Education : Evidence from Rural Mexico
Gertler, Paul; Patrinos, Harry; Rubio-Codina, Marta - 2012
Mexico's compensatory education program provides extra resources to primary schools that enroll disadvantaged students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552414