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impacts of Mexico's national payments for ecosystem services program, which provides five years of payments to landowners in …
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In 2013, Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly was expanded by changing its eligibility threshold from age 70 … to age 65. Using pooled cross-sectional data from Mexico's National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, the …-experimental methods, results show that the expansion of Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly not only reduced the probability …
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This paper studies the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation rates and test …
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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 …
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in Mexico, matched with firm and bank balance-sheet data, and by exploiting foreign monetary policy shocks, given the … large presence of European and U.S. banks in Mexico. The paper finds that a softening of foreign monetary policy increases … banks (for example, U.K. monetary policy affects credit supply in Mexico via U.K. banks), in turn implying strong real …
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reform in Mexico. Informal-business owners from the second group were more likely to register their business after the reform …
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existing evaluations have mostly been done in high-income countries such as the United States and Europe. Mexico spends a large … achieving their objectives is unclear. In Mexico, impact evaluations of small and medium enterprise programs are rare, and most … are qualitative in nature. This is the first paper evaluating these programs in Mexico using firm-level panel data. The …
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This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare, social inclusion, and environmental quality. The analysis uses district-level data for 1994-2011 and the difference-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways...
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The size of the economic shocks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the associated non-pharmaceutical interventions have not been fully assessed, because the official economic indicators have not been published. This paper provides estimates of the economic impacts of the...
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
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