poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

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. …

-contributory pensions on well-being in rural Mexico can be largely generalized to Peru. … beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in Peru, which uses a poverty eligibility threshold. We find that the …) in their study on a non-contributory pension scheme in Mexico. Thus, we conclude that the effects of non …

This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is … examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants …. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease in homicide rates. Every 1 percent increase in the number of households …

increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of …

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims … to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different … model of poverty we have identified, considering various factors as weightings. Methodologically speaking, it is proposed an …

, which grows to 10ppts four years after. This is not enough to offset the loss in income on average, and income poverty rises …