In January 2014, Mexico addressed its epidemic of obesity by implementing an excise tax of 1 peso (1 MXN) per liter on … soft drinks. This study evaluates the pass-through of the tax, the influence on the tax of competition among different … stores, and the after-tax price dispersion. Using an unbalanced panel of weekly prices for 553 stores throughout Mexico, we …

internationalization processes in the internal features of Mexico's NIS and estimate its impacts. This information could allow for a better …

earnings returns to human capital endowments for formal and informal sector workers in rural and urban Mexico. Returns to …

. Using data from Mexico, we find that both the size and the uncertainty of remittances raise asset accumulation among …

male workers in Brazil and Mexico. Our analysis takes into account demographic, educational, and economic variations within … each country over time, using Demographic Censuses microdata from Brazil and Mexico. Results suggest that demographic and … countries. Moreover, in Brazil and Mexico, these effects are observed throughout the income distribution, contrary to what is …

, few have noted that informality and wage inequality tend to move together. Using Mexico as a case study, I show that … provide supportive evidence that in Mexico higher wage dispersion is one of the channels through which informality negatively …

results from an energy efficiency program in the construction of a business complex in Hermosillo, Mexico, particularly in the …