Can Public Transfers Reduce Mexican Migration? A study based on randomized experimental data
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- Stecklov, Guy & Winters, Paul & Stampini, Marco & Davis, Benjamin, 2003. "Can public transfers reduce Mexican migration? A study based on randomized experimental data," ESA Working Papers 289083, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA).
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Debt; Economics; Income transfers; Mexico; Migration; Poverty; Rural urban migration; Social conditions; Social policies; Urban rural migration;All these keywords.
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- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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