Regional industrial growth in Mexico: Do human capital and infrastructure matter?

Brock, Gregory J.; Germán–Soto, Vicente

doi:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2012.10.003

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“…For access to external markets, we calculate two complementary measures: the minimum travel time or the minimum travel cost to a major port and to the u.s. border. 26 To correct for the non-random placement of roads, we also instrument local accessibility by applying the doughnut approach (i.e., we instrument our road efficiency measure with a doughnut of efficient roads). Finally, we also run a cross-section regression where our infrastructure metric is instrumented by the 1949 efficient road length.…”

Section: The Effect Of Access To Infrastructure On Employment and Spementioning

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Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico

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Garduño-Rivera

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Section: The Effect Of Access To Infrastructure On Employment and Spementioning

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Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico

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Garduño-Rivera

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“…Brock and Germán-Soto (2013) investigate the impact of human capital and infrastructure on industrial production in the states. Evidence on the impact of human capital is mixed but, in all cases, the results indicate that investment in infrastructure fails to generate positive returns.…”

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“…Depreciated industrial capital stocks are estimated using data on real capital investment and employment by industry. These capital stock data have previously been employed in the context of an aggregate production function analysis to examine industrial dynamics across Mexican regions (Brock and Germán-Soto, 2013). This study utilizes industrial capital stock estimates produced using the methodology employed by Germán-Soto (2008) A further data-related issue concerns how to measure the transportation infrastructure capital and human capital variables that appear in Equation (1).…”

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An Empirical Analysis of Education, Infrastructure, and Regional Growth in Mexico

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Anda³

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Various studies suggest that regions with larger stocks of physical infrastructure and human capital often exhibit comparatively robust economic performance. The research at hand examines whether this is the case for regions within Mexico using data from the 2010 Census and other sources. Aggregate production functions are estimated in order to analyze the determinants of economic performance across Mexican states. Explanatory variables include kilometers of highways, airport runway lengths, percentages of adults in each state with education beyond the primary level, and the number of certified researchers as a share of the national total. In line with prior research, results indicate that regional-level investments in transportation infrastructure and education will likely facilitate economic growth in Mexico. An out-of-sample policy simulation is used to further quantify regional economic throughout the country.

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“…Historians have instead focused on particular regions and/or the regional distribution of particular sectors, 3 and the aggregate study of regional inequality, which has often been approached through β-convergence and σ-convergence analyses, has usually been restricted to the most recent decades (see Esquivel, 1999;Sánchez-Reaza and Rodríguez-Pose, 2002;Chiquiar, 2005;Rodríguez-Oreggia, 2005;Carrion-i-Silvestre and German-Soto, 2007;Ruiz, 2010;Brock and Germán-Soto, 2013). 4 Moreover, even though these convergence studies are useful to understand regional inequality trends, they provide a highly simplified view of the historical evolution of regional income distribution process, as they totally ignore the spatial location component (Yamamoto, 2008).…”

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Regional Income Distribution in Mexico: New Long-Term Evidence, 1895–2010

Aguilar-Retureta

2016

Economic History of Developing Regions

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Abstract:In the last years, Economic History literature has paid close attention to the long-term changes undertaken by regional income inequality in different countries after the integration of their domestic markets. Nevertheless, this literature has mainly focused on developed economies (US and Europe). New evidence is required from peripheral economies, where economic growth has had different features, and income inequality may have been dominated by other forces and followed different trends. The aim of this paper is to analyse several dimensions of the long-term evolution of Mexican regional income inequality, from the early stages of domestic markets integration to the present . This analysis may be taken as basis for further explanatory analysis and may contribute to the emergence of new hypothesis to explain the long-term changes in regional inequality in peripheral economies.JEL Codes: N16, N96, R11.

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Regional industrial growth in Mexico: Do human capital and infrastructure matter?

Cited by 26 publications

References 33 publications

Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico

Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico

An Empirical Analysis of Education, Infrastructure, and Regional Growth in Mexico

Regional Income Distribution in Mexico: New Long-Term Evidence, 1895–2010

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