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Closing the achievement gap in mathematics: evidence from a remedial program in Mexico City

This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention targeted at marginalized low-performance students in public secondary schools in Mexico City. The program consisted in offering free additional math courses, ...

Authors: Emilio Gutiérrez and Rodimiro Rodrigo

Economic behavior of indigenous peoples: the Mexican case

Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indige...

Authors: Juan Carlos Pérez Velasco Pavón

Growth, bank credit, and inflation in Mexico: evidence from an ARDL-bounds testing approach

This paper explores the long-run effects of inflation on the dynamics of private sector bank credit and economic growth in Mexico over the period 1969–2011. With an ARDL-type model, the statistical results sug...

Authors: Miguel Ángel Tinoco-Zermeño, Francisco Venegas-Martínez and Víctor Hugo Torres-Preciado

New directions of trade for the agri-food industry: a disaggregated approach for different income countries, 1963–2000

The principal objective of the present study is to explain the changes in the direction of agri-food trade flows during the second half of the twentieth century. Since the end of the Second World War, trade ha...

Authors: Raúl Serrano and Vicente Pinilla

The effect of coca and FDI on the level of corruption in Bolivia

This paper analyzes the causes of corruption in contemporary Bolivia. It argues that, along with the well-documented observation that richer countries tend, on average, to be less corrupt than poorer ones, cor...

Authors: Antonio N. Bojanic

Do Mexicans care about air pollution?

Mexico has many major problems such as corruption, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, pollution, etc. Regarding pollution, politicians have established some programs trying to improve air quality in Mexico. Bu...

Authors: José Iván Rodríguez-Sánchez

Market discipline: a review of the Mexican deposit market

This paper studies the mechanisms of market discipline in the Mexican deposit market. It tests the hypothesis that low-quality banks pay higher interest rates on deposits, receive fewer deposits, and shift the...

Authors: Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García

Erratum to: Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Authors: Edward B. Barbier

Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Empirical evidence indicates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, households on less favored, or marginal, agricultural land form a “residual” pool of rural labor. Although the modern sector may be the sou...

Authors: Edward B. Barbier and John S. Bugas

What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cogniti...

Authors: Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Emily L. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Manuel Ramírez-Zea and Aryeh D. Stein

Real exchange rate and manufacturing growth in Latin America

The manufacturing sectors in Latin America have been more affected by the currency over/undervaluation than their counterpart in industrialized economies. From a panel data set covering 39 countries and 22 man...

Authors: Paulo Henrique Vaz and Werner Baer

Trend-cycle decomposition for Peruvian GDP: application of an alternative method

Perron and Wada (J Monet Econ 56:749–765, 2009) propose a new method of decomposition of the GDP in its trend and cycle components, which overcomes the identification problems of models of unobserved components (...

Authors: Ángel Guillén and Gabriel Rodríguez

Greetings from the Editor-in-Chief

Authors: Juan Rosellon