The aim of this paper is to make imputations of earnings to observations with missing earnings in the Encuesta Nacional de Ocupaciones y Empleo (ENOE). We present imputations by two methods and also a correction of estimations by reweighting observations with reported earnings. Then, we analyze...

There is a growing interest for designing policies that may help increase the use formal financial products by poor people. We use a panel database of families with access to these financial products and analyze why some use these products and others not. To verify the robustness of our results,...

The Mexican microfinance industry is evolving. Members were previously non-profit informal institutions. Today many of them are supervised either by the government or the market. Even though such transformation carries some benefits, there is concern that it will induce a change in their market...