We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income … inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find …

We use microsimulation to estimate the short-term distributional consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico …. Although the potential increase in poverty is significant, we find that compared to their pre-shock income, those who lost the … most are the moderate poor and the vulnerable to poverty. We find that the impact on poverty is more severe for urban …

options for poverty alleviation in a given country. When a population can be divided into subgroups according to an easily … identifiable characteristic, the problem of alleviating poverty through a targeted mechanism can be viewed as one of choosing of … data from Mexico is applied. …