The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …. Given their size and integration, growth in EM7 could have significant cross-border spillovers. The authors provide … empirical estimates of these spillovers using a Bayesian vector autoregression model. They report three main results. First …

context of a conditional cash transfer program in rural Mexico. These effects are identified using exogenous variations in the …. These cross-village spillovers operate exclusively within households receiving another component of the program, and do not … implementation, evidence is found suggesting that spillovers stem partly from the sharing of information about the program among …

This paper studies the sharp increase in violence experienced in Mexico after 2006, known as "The War on Drugs," and … significant negative effects of violence on economic outcomes in Mexico, the paper finds evidence that this is not the case, at … accumulation today should have little to no adverse effects on long-term growth outcomes in Mexico …

Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …

reconstruction funds in Mexico, this paper provides some of the first estimates of the impact of disaster funds on local economic …

exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over … municipal level for Mexico (2005-2010), the analysis finds evidence indicating that drug-related crimes indeed deter growth. It …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico …