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来源IDCID Faculty Working Paper No. 343
Place-specific Determinants of Income Gaps: New Sub-National Evidence from Chiapas, Mexico
Ricardo Hausmann; Carlo Pietrobelli; and Miguel Angel Santos
发表日期2018-07
出版年2018
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The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, the schooling gap between Chiapas and the other Mexican entities has shrunk while the income gap has widened, and we find no evidence indicating that Chiapas indigenes are worse-off than their likes elsewhere in Mexico. We explore a different hypothesis. Based on census data, we calculate the economic complexity index, a measure of the knowledge agglomeration embedded in the economic activities at a municipal level in Mexico. Economic complexity explains a larger fraction of the income gap than any individual factor. Our results suggest that chiapanecos are not the problem, the problem is Chiapas. These results hold when we extend our analysis to Mexico’s thirty-one federal entities, suggesting that place-specific determinants that have been overlooked in both the literature and policy, have a key role in the determination of income gaps.

URLhttps://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers/determinants-of-income-gaps-chiapas-mexico
来源智库Center for International Development (United States)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/503259
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Ricardo Hausmann,Carlo Pietrobelli,and Miguel Angel Santos. Place-specific Determinants of Income Gaps: New Sub-National Evidence from Chiapas, Mexico. 2018.
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