Mexico
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Using lotteries to attract deposits: Evidence from Mexican banks
Lottery incentives in Mexico attracted unbanked households to open bank accounts and caused a persistent increase in the flow of deposits and the stock of savings
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Coming home to prosperity: How return migration promotes economic development
Evidence from Mexico shows how migrants can foster local economic development after returning to their countries of origin
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Grandmothers and the Mexican labour market
Childcare responsibilities fall disproportionately on women, causing them to leave the labour market after grandmothers pass away
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Can temporary wage incentives increase formal employment? Experimental evidence from Mexico
In Mexico, where formal jobs have low starting salaries which increase rapidly over time, temporary wage subsidies to young high school graduates lead to sustained formal employment gains
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Texting to save lives: Evidence from cardiovascular treatment reform in Mexico
Increasing across-hospital transfer coordination through app-based group chats led to large improvements in the survival rate of heart attack patients
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How to scale up child development programmes
Engaged communities of parents are a potential nonscarce resource to promote the success of education programmes at scale
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The unequal effects of pollution on daily labour supply
In response to high pollution, workers reduce their labour supply, but by differing amounts
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The relationship between labour market conditions and policy effects: Evidence from Mexico’s PROGRESA
A conditional cash transfer programme was less effective in regions with more exposure to export-manufacturing jobs
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The impact of Mexico’s Progresa programme twenty years on
The ground-breaking conditional cash transfer programme shows long-term benefits to education, income, geographic mobility and family formation