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Welfare Effects of an In-kind Transfer Program : Evidence from Mexico
Tagliati, Federico - 2019
value. Despite the welfare loss, the in-kind transfer is more cost-efficient than cash. This is due to the fact that the … transfer of the same cost to the government could only buy a fraction of the food basket in recipient's local markets. Because …
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Child Labor Under Cash and In-Kind Transfers : Evidence from Rural Mexico
Tagliati, Federico - 2019
This paper studies the effects of cash versus in-kind transfers on child labor. Using data from a program which randomly transferred either cash or a basket of food to poor households in Mexico, I find that the cash transfer reduced children's work participation by a significantly larger margin...
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Program Evaluation with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Selective Implementation : The Mexican Progresa Impact on Child Nutrition
Behrman, Jere; Hoddinott, John - 2012
The assessment of the impact of social programs is the subject of lively, sometimes heated debate over whether program evaluation is best conducted either by comparing mean outcomes from a randomized intervention or by using econometric techniques with nonrandom samples. This paper contributes...
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Crime and microenterprise growth : evidence from Mexico
Benyishay, Ariel; Pearlman, Sarah - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 56 (2014), pp. 139-152
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Victimization and spillover effects in Mexico
Martínez, José - In: EconoQuantum : Revista de Economía y Negocios 13 (2016) 2, pp. 7-31
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Drug violence, the peso, and northern border retail activity in Mexico
Fullerton, Thomas M. (contributor) - 2015
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"Walking ATMs" : do crime rates affect remittances of Mexican migrants in the United States?
Coon, Michael - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 1, pp. 6-23
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Household responses to escalating violence in Mexico
Blanco, Luisa; Grier, Robin Marie; Grier, Kevin; Hicks, … - In: Applied economics letters 28 (2021) 4, pp. 315-318
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Factors associated with electricity theft in Mexico
Briseño, Hugo; Rojas, Omar - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy : IJEEP 10 (2020) 3, pp. 250-254
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When crime hits communities : a story of fear and depression in Mexico
Yakubenko, Viacheslav; Heesemann, Esther Luise - 2019
Illegal activities harm individuals and society as a whole. Besides the physical harm and immediate wealth loss, crime … evidence that the surge of crime rates in Mexico contributed to higher incidence of major depressive disorder in the population …. Focusing on Mexico allows us to analyse how a sudden, arguable exogenous shock on overall crime rates in the 2000s, namely the …
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