Moving beyond the simple comparisons of averages typical of most analyses of household income shocks, this article employs quantile analysis to generate a complete distribution of such shocks by type of household during the 1995 crisis in Mexico. It compares the distributions across normal and...

This article employs established techniques from the spatial economics literature to identify regional patterns of income and growth in Mexico and to examine how they have changed over the period spanned by trade liberalization and how they may be linked to the income divergence observed...

Part of the rationale for the North American Free Trade Agreement was that it would increase trade and foreign direct investment (<EM t="s">fdi</EM>) flows, creating jobs and reducing migration to the United States. Since poor data on illegal migration to the United States make direct measurement difficult,...</em>