This paper presents an estimate of the impact of economic crisis and adjustment on the living standards of the Mexican population between 1982 and 1985. The analysis is based on information on wage and nonwage incomes, unemployment, functional income distribution, changes in public expenditures,...

This paper examines the impacts of weather shocks, defined as rainfall or growing degree days more than a standard deviation from their respective long-run means, on household consumption per capita and child height-for-age. The results reveal that the current risk-coping mechanisms are not...

This paper examines the impacts of weather shocks, defined as rainfall or growing degree days more than a standard deviation from their respective long-run means, on household consumption per capita and child height-for-age. The results reveal that the current risk-coping mechanisms are not...

The authors test whether poor households use cash transfers to invest in income generating activities that they otherwise would not have been able to do. Using data from a controlled randomized experiment, they find that transfers from the Oportunidades program to households in rural Mexico...

Die mexikanische Landbevölkerung leidet unter extremer Armut, Marginalisierung, Ernährungsunsicherheit und Schädigung der natürlichen Ressourcen. Diese Arbeit zielt darauf ab, zu verstehen, wie Familien ihre Vermögenswerte (Assets) verwalten, um ihre Lebensbedingungen zu verbessern. Dies...