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Weather Index Insurance and Shock Coping : Evidence from Mexico's Cadena Program

de Janvry, Alain - 2017

Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in … year, although there is suggestive evidence that some of this increase is offset by a decrease in remittances. While the …

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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020

important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local … monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial … poverty and inequality in terms of incentives to design formulas to distribute earmarked fiscal resources to subnational …

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Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models : Evidence from Mexico

Halliday, Timothy - 2017

Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output prices can affect factor prices, this paper...

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Income Inequality and Violent Crime : Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

Enamorado, Ted - 2017

The relationship between income inequality and crime has attracted the interest of many researchers, but little convincing evidence exists on the causal effect of inequality on crime in developing countries. This paper estimates this effect in a unique context: Mexico's Drug War. The analysis...

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Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Lustig, Nora - 2017

Between 2000 and 2010, the Gini coefficient declined in 13 of 17 Latin American countries. The decline was statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main...

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Accounting for Mexican Income Inequality During the 1990s

De Hoyos Navarro, Rafael E. - 2016

The author implements several inequality decomposition methods to measure the extent to which total household income disparities can be attributable to sectoral asymmetries and differences in skill endowments. The results show that at least half of total household inequality in Mexico is...

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Mexico : Two Decades of the Evolution of Education and Inequality

Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2016

Mexico experienced a pronounced increase in the degree of inequality and earnings inequality over the 1980s and mid 1990s. Contrary to the trend in the distribution of total income inequality, there has been an improvement in the distribution of earnings inequality since 1996. This paper shows...

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Getting Real About Inequality : Evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru

Goni, Edwin; Lopez, Humberto; Servén, Luis - 2015

Consumption baskets vary across households and inflation rates vary across goods. As a result, standard consumer price index (CPI) inflation may provide a misleading measure of the inflation actually faced by poor households, more so the more unequal the distribution of aggregate consumption...

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Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error : A Pseudo-Panel Approach

McKenzie, David J.; Antman, Francisca - 2005

The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the...

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Does Migration Reshape Expenditures in Rural Households? Evidence from Mexico

Mora, Jorge - 2016

Migration reshapes rural economies in ways that may go beyond the contribution of migrant remittances to household … source household. Numerous studies have attempted to quantify the impact of migrant remittances on expenditures in migrant …-sending households following one of two approaches. The first asks how migrant remittances are spent. It has the advantage of being …

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