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significant reduction of school attendance. -- Child labor ; International migration ; Remittances ; Mexico. …This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican …
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This paper estimates the crowding out of private transfers caused by 70 y Más -a public assistance program for rural … elderly adults in Mexico, for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the National Household … percent, and it does so mainly by reducing the probability of receiving domestic remittances. As a result, the non …
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poverty used in Mexico, for urban and rural areas and for the total of households and individuals in Mexico from 1994 to 2006 …This article applies fuzzy set theory to measure three dimensions of poverty in Mexico: monetary poverty, non … significant changes along time. Results show that, although poverty in Mexico has diminished between 1994 and 2006, its evolution …
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For a typical developing country, this paper shows that once inter-sectoral linkages are taken into account, closing the productivity gap in a number of services gives bigger gains in aggregate productivity than closing it in agriculture or in manufacturing. This is performed in the context of...
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This paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing country. It provides evidence on peer effects in standardized tests by exploiting a unique data set on social networks in Uruguayan primary schools. The identification method...
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