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set is that TFP growth in Mexico tends to be fairly concentrated and highly irregular, as just a reduced share of the …
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We construct a panel data at the state level in Mexico for the years 2006, 2008 and 2011 in order to investigate the … impact that entry deregulation efforts have on the cost of opening new businesses in Mexico, where this cost is taken from … the Doing Business in Mexico report of the World Bank. Using a model that the controls for the financial strength of the …
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This paper studies the impact of the health decentralization of funds and responsibilities that took place in Mexico in …
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The size of the average American household has fallen dramatically -from six in 1850 to three in 2000. To explain this decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are more income elastic than public goods, as we document...
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In this study we use data on the productive structure of Mexican states to compute a measure of economic complexity for each, as well as for each economic activity conducted there. The results show that the states differ in terms of the economic activities in which they specialize and,...
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This paper studies the long-run effects of concertaje, a forced labor system from the Spanish colonial era in Ecuador that coerced indigenous workers in rural estates after indebting them. I collected and digitized historical tax records (1800) and connected them to contemporary ones (2010s) via...
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in states and regions of Mexico and their effect on aggregate income. According to the model, aggregate income could …
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-2020 period in Mexico. Using satellite images of nightlight and microdata from the 2019 Economic Census, the formal and informal …). Although there are some measurements in Mexico of informal economic activity, these are not available at the municipal level or … on an annual basis. The results indicate that at the national level, most of the municipalities show decreases in their …
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