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We examine the influence of two distinct regime changes in US border security on the number of persons traveling from the US into Mexico on day trips. In contrast to increases in overall US tourism to Mexico a...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:15
Although climate change is filled with uncertainties, a broad set of policies proposed to address this issue can be grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better pre...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:14
Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region in the developing world. Its urbanization rate of almost 80 % is comparable to that of high-income countries. However, cities in the region are stru...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:13
This paper reviews the progress economists have made towards achieving an evidence-based educational policy, and highlights challenges that remain. The five main findings are: (1) over the past two decades, mu...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:12
The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommuni...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:11
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This paper studies intergenerational mobility in Latin America and shows that, in addition to the well-documented fact that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opp...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:9
This paper analyzes whether Mexico’s de-facto non-contributory health insurance program Seguro Popular had an effect on the risk of miscarriage during pregnancy. Using data on pregnancies over the 2004–08 peri...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:8
This study examines whether Seguro Popular, a free-of-charge publicly provided health insurance program for otherwise uninsured households, crowded-out private transfers in Mexico. Using data from the National...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:7
The traditional time series methodology requires at least a preliminary transformation of the data to get stationarity. On the other hand, robust Bayesian dynamic models (RBDMs) do not assume a regular pattern...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:6
The aim of this research is to explore the existence of inefficient behaviors in public high schools in Uruguay and identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 20...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:5
The paper investigates firms’ behavior and outcomes (levels of cost-reducing R&D, output, profit and welfare in equilibrium) in a differentiated duopoly with process innovation. One of the important features i...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:4
Inflation targeting has been widely adopted in Latin America. In this paper, we show evidence consistent with major beneficial effects from so doing, with falling term premia and anchored policy rate expectati...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:3
The intra-generational redistribution in the Argentinean pension program is assessed in a lifetime basis. Using household surveys, the lifetime flows of labor income, contributions and retirement benefits are ...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:2
This paper aims at quantifying the relative importance of different transmission channels generating the high levels of intergenerational correlations in education, especially in Latin America. A simultaneous ...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2015 24:1
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, ...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:14
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...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:12
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...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:8
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...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:10
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...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:11
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...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:9
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...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:6
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The original article was published in Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:3
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...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:3
The Erratum to this article has been published in Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:7
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...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:4
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...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:2
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 (...
Citation: Latin American Economic Review 2014 23:5
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