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Family and Community Networks in Mexico-U.S. Migration

Winters, Paul; de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2019

A household's decision to send migrants is based on information it has on the entry costs, expected returns, and risks of migration. Information and assistance flow from both family migrant networks and community migrant networks. Using data from a national survey of rural Mexican households, we...

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Domestic and International Migration From Rural Mexico : Disaggregating the Effects of Network Structure and Composition

Winters, Paul; Davis, Benjamin; Stecklov, Guy - 2019

influences rural-to-rural, rural-to-urban, and rural-to-international migration. Using data from rural Mexico, migration is … considered in a multiple-choice context that allows for the possibility that rural Mexicans can migrate within Mexico, for … aggregate measures, US migrant networks appear more important than migrant networks in Mexico. Once networks are disaggregated …

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Do Conditional Cash Transfers Influence Migration? : A Study Using Experimental Data From the Mexican Progresa Program

Winters, Paul; Davis, Benjamin; Stecklov, Guy; … - 2019

determining migration outcomes. We use experimental data from PROGRESA, Mexico’s primary poverty-reduction program, to evaluate …

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Why Do Beneficiaries Leave the Safety Net in Mexico? : A Study of the Effects of Conditionality on Dropouts

Winters, Paul; alvarez, carola; Devoto, Florencia - 2019

This paper analyzes the characteristics of beneficiaries who drop out of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades to determine if dropping out of the program is a result of self-targeting by the non-poor or the exclusion of the target poor population. Using Oportunidades’...

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Designing a Programme to Support Smallholder Agriculture in Mexico : Lessons From PROCAMPO and Oportunidades

Winters, Paul; Davis, Benjamin - 2019

This article argues that there is a gap in current Mexican rural development policy that could be filled by a smallholder‐targeted programme. The gap exists because agricultural programmes tend to benefit better‐off farmers, while social programmes tend to focus on long‐term investment in...

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The Effect of Early Interventions in Health and Nutrition on On-Time School Enrollment : Evidence from the Oportunidades Program in Rural Mexico

Winters, Paul - 2019

This article assesses whether early intervention to improve children’s health and nutrition increases the probability of enrolling in primary school on time. Using experimental data from the Mexican conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, Oportunidades, a cross-sectional double-difference...

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Determinants of Trademarking : Evidence From Arizona and New Mexico Startups

Wang, Haoying; Dou, Shuming - 2018

Trademarks are considered an important indicator of entrepreneurial innovation, especially among nontechnology-based service firms and startups. Therefore, it is essential to understand the motivations and drivers behind trademark applications to get a grasp of firm innovation behavior. This...

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Default Risk and Dollarization in Mexico

Gruben, William C.; Welch, John H. - 1998

Most empirical evidence of dollarization in Latin America accords with the theoretical claim that increases in expected devaluation increase dollarization. But Rogers (1992a and 1992b) finds that between 1978 and 1982, relative holdings of Mexdollars were negatively related to expected...

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Trade Reform and Poverty : The Case of Mexico

Ianchovichina, Elena; Nicita, Alessandro; Soloaga, Isidro - 2004

We use a two-step computationally simple procedure to analyse the effects of Mexico's potential unilateral tariff … on poverty and income distribution. Although Mexico widely liberalised most of its imports by the mid 90s, one salient …

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Mexico Under the Political–transition Cycle : 2018–2020

Coutino, Alfredo - 2018

In this paper we evaluate Mexico’s potential scenario for 2018-2020 period, in which the economy will be immersed in …

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