Beginning in the 1990s and intensifying after the events of September 11, deportations in the United States increased to record levels under President Obama and continued at high levels under President Trump. Although a growing literature addresses how migrants respond to the shifting context of reception, empirical evidence on how migrants’ remitt...
En la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México (ZMVM), como en la mayoría de las metrópolis latinoamericanas, la movilidad intraurbana es el principal impulsor de los cambios de la división social del espacio. La dinámica de movilidad residencial, al igual que la de los desplazamientos cotidianos, refleja con fuerza la inscripción de las desigualdade...
Several well-known studies have remarked on the low financial literacy (FL) levels in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which represent a problem in an economic context of change and uncertainty. This fact gives us the opportunity to evaluate the current state of literature related to FL in the region. The main list of identified keywords allo...
We use a multilevel approach to investigate whether a general and robust relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions can be uncovered in Western African countries. We combine individual survey data with measures of localized weather shocks for 13 countries over the 2008–2016 period. A meta-analysis on r...
Background: Vital statistics registration and census counts for Mexico may be incomplete, resulting in unreliable mortality indicators. Objective: We evaluate unadjusted mortality estimates for Mexico during 1990‒2016 and compare them with other published estimates for Mexico and with the historical mortality patterns observed among the 41 Human Mo...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the discourse of Physical Education (PE) and group teachers on the concept of PE, itspedagogical orientation, expected learning from students, and learning transfer, in a public primary school (EP-PUB) and a private school(EP-PRIV). The research was qualitative, developed from a case study: two teachers from ...
América Latina posee una tradición importante en materia de programas públicos de mejoramiento urbano de barrios marginados. Estos programas han conocido una evolución notable a lo largo del tiempo, pasando de ser iniciativas orientadas ante todo hacia la provisión de servicios urbanos básicos y el mejoramiento habitacional, a enfoques cada vez más...
Currently, fitness centers are increasing in number, growing meaningful as a part of modern lifestyles, relevant to economy, contributing to health prevention services and body aesthetics. Objective: to analyze fitness trends in Mexico in 2020 by means of the Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends from ACSM; to contrast the results obtained for the yea...
The school reenrollment probability conditional on a child's circumstances (gender, indigenous origin, and family background) is our measure of a child's school reenrollment opportunity. For children who completed grades 1-6, we use generalized Lorenz and Lorenz dominance to show that Progresa improved aggregate opportunities and reduced inequality...
