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...
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We reported the characteristics of hydrate-bound hydrocarbons in lake-bottom sediments at the Kedr mud volcano in Lake Baikal. Twenty hydrate-bearing sediment cores were retrieved, and methane-stable isotopes of hydrate-bound gases (δ13C and δ2H of − 47.8‰ to − 44.0‰ V-PDB and − 280.5‰ to − 272.8‰ V-SMOW, respectively) indicated their thermogenic o...
In 1977, Michael Lipton introduced the Urban Bias Thesis as a framework for understanding how most macro- and microeconomic policy initiatives have historically benefited the overdevelopment of urban areas and the underdevelopment of rural areas, as a result of the historical urban bias in resource reallocation. In Latin America, urbanization and m...
The possibility of voyaging contact between prehistoric Polynesian and Native American populations has long intrigued researchers. Proponents have pointed to the existence of New World crops, such as the sweet potato and bottle gourd, in the Polynesian archaeological record, but nowhere else outside the pre-Columbian Americas1,2,3,4,5,6, while crit...
La cérémonie du baby shower. " Fête prénatale ", " de grossesse " ou " réception pour la naissance du bébé " (ducha del bébé, fiesta del bébé ou fiesta del nacimiento en espagnol), a habituellement lieu au cours des trois derniers mois de grossesse. Attestée au Mexique - comme au Pérou (Byström 2015) - depuis une trentaine d'années, l'existence du ...
This dissertation aims to actively approach melodramatic Latinx/Mexican productions as cultural manifestations of a political movement that not only pushes the proverbial envelope towards post-queer-identity (that is post the coming out climax of many works) by demanding the recognition of explicit queer sexuality as a powerful tool that can and do...
Tradicionalmente, en el campo del urbanismo, el término regeneración urbana refiere al proceso de producción urbana que se ha vuelto predominante en las ciudades de Europa y América del norte desde hace ya varias décadas : la implementación de grandes proyectos urbanos de recuperación, tanto física como socio-económica, de áreas intra-urbanas, gene...
