I report on a study of the socioeconomic determinants of completed fertility in Mexico. An innovative Poisson double-hurdle count model is developed for the analysis. This methodological approach allows low- and high-order parities to be determined by two different data-generating mechanisms and...

In this paper, we analyze the effects of inflation on poverty in Mexico from 1993 to 2009. We also include sector composition of GDP and informal work as determinants of poverty in Mexico. We use two measures for poverty: the percentage population whose household income per capita is below the...

Treatment-effects estimation is a fundamental tool in the empirical analysis of program and policy evaluations. Its importance in this area is reflected in the ample body of work that has been done in the last decades. Using Stata, I will illustrate estimation of the more traditional...

From its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until today, the study of economic time series has involved a variety of research anchored in stylized mathematical methods in order to simulate, verify, test, and forecast the behavior of key economic variables to describe...

En la actualidad existen diferentes programas en el mercado que permiten realizar análisis de información geográfica. Sin embargo, estos programas presentan limitaciones para realizar análisis geográficos a partir de datos estadísticos, debido a que no siempre aceptan algoritmos que...

After one fits regression models, it is quite common to produce out-of-sample forecasts to evaluate the predictive accuracy of the model or simply to estimate the expected behavior of one or more dependent variables (assuming that the model is valid be yond the estimation sample). I selected a...

Entre 2001 y 2008, la manera en que el gobierno incentivaba a que las empresas privadas en México aumentaran su actividad innovadora relacionada con la investigación científica y con el desarrollo tecnológico era a través de su programa EFIDE T, acrónimo correspondiente a Programa de...

El aprendizaje de estadística o econometría en la actualidad implica evaluar la aplicación de métodos en programas (software) de análisis estadístico. En términos usuales esta evaluación se lleva a cabo a partir de una (1) base de datos y una(s ) pregunta(s) que genera(n) una(s)...

Several econometric software offer portfolio management tools for practitioners and researchers. For example, MatLab and R offer a great variety of tools for the simulation, optimization, and analysis of financial time series. Stata, together with Mata, offers powerful programming tools for the...

In this presentation, I discuss two applications of the vec commands. First, I use the cointegrating VAR approach discussed in Garratt et al. (2006) to fit a vector error-correction model. In contrast with the application of the traditional Johansen statistical restrictions for the...