The Aguascalientes Longitudinal Study of Child Development: Baseline and First Results, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Alfonso Miranda, Profesor Investigador Titular de la División de Economía del CIDE, Yahaira Rodríguez-Martínez, Osiel González Dávila y Antonio A. Aréchar, Cátedras Conacyt del Programa de Estudios Longitudinales, Experimentos y Encuestas del CIDE, Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga, Cátedra Conacyt del Programa de Política de Drogas del CIDE, Jaime Sainz-Santamaría, Profesor Investigador Titular de la División de Administración Pública, y Adriana
- Published in Investigaciones
Lo que sí funciona. Cambios de conducta para proyectar la equidad de género
Iris Bohnet, la autora del libro, es profesora de negocios y gobierno, decana de la Harvard Kennedy School y una de las personas más influyentes en la política de género en 2018. Ha asesorado a la OCDE, el Banco Mundial, Unilever, UNESCO, UNICEF, Google y Deloitte, entre otros. Para construir su libro, Bohnet parte de
- Published in Editorial CIDE
Skills versus Luck: Bolivia and its recent Bonanza | Latin American Economic Review
This paper uses different approaches to determine the contribution of internal policies and external factors on the good performance of the Bolivian economy in the recent past. It is demonstrated that the extremely favorable external conditions are mainly responsible for its bonanza, and that the domestic policies have, probably, caused more harm, than good. The
- Published in Revistas CIDE
A dynamic factor model for the Mexican economy: are common trends useful when predicting economic activity?
In this paper Francisco Corona, Graciela González-Farías and Pedro Orraca propose to use the common trends of the Mexican economy in order to predict economic activity one and two steps ahead. We exploit the cointegration properties of the macroeconomic time series, such that, when the series are I(1) and cointegrated, there is a factor representation, where
- Published in Revistas CIDE
Purchasing power parity in Mexico since 1933
A new approach to cointegration developed by Enders et al. (Cointegration tests using instrumental variables with an example of the U.K. demand for money. Unpublished working paper written by Frederick H. Wallace. http://wenders.people.ua.edu/time-series-methods.html, 2008) is applied to long-span, high-frequency data to test for purchasing power parity in the Mexico–US real exchange rate. Overall the empirical
- Published in Revistas CIDE
The rise and fall of income inequality in Chile
This paper written by Francisco Parro and Loreto Reyes presents evidence on a rise and fall in income inequality in Chile during the past two decades. We show that income inequality rises from 1990 to 2000 and then falls from 2000 to 2011. We perform simple but informative decompositions to figure out the contributing factors
- Published in Revistas CIDE
Defence expenditure and economic growth in Latin American countries: evidence from linear and nonlinear causality tests
Using SIPRI’s new consistent database on military expenditures, the paper written by Christos Kollias, Suzanna-Maria Paleologou, Panayiotis Tzeremes and Nickolaos Tzeremes, examines the economic effects of such spending in the case of the 13 Latin American countries. Employing both linear and nonlinear tests, the nexus between defence spending, economic growth, and investment is investigated for the
- Published in Revistas CIDE
Changes in rural poverty in Perú 2004–2012
This paper written by Samuel Morley disaggregates the various sources of rural income growth in Peru between 2004 and 2012 and shows that about 80% of the increase came from rising earnings and only 15% from transfer programs. This increase in rural earnings was not led by agriculture. It was mainly because of a general rise
- Published in Revistas CIDE
The economic integration of Spain: a change in the inflation pattern
The behavior of Spanish inflation rates at the provincial level (consumption prices) differs over the two spans of time considered in our study (1955.1–1978.6, 1978.7–2014.4). Alejandro C. García-Cintado, Diego Romero-Ávila and Carlos Usabiaga point to a long list of institutional and economic changes, at national and international levels, as the potential factors that might have led
- Published in Revistas CIDE