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Gonzalez, Ariadna Martinez.

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Three Essays on Mexico's Rural Farmers, Poverty, and Connective Infrastructure.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three Essays on Mexico's Rural Farmers, Poverty, and Connective Infrastructure./
Author:	Gonzalez, Ariadna Martinez.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	157 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-04A(E).
Subject:	Economic theory. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=11005574
ISBN:	9780438592230

Three Essays on Mexico's Rural Farmers, Poverty, and Connective Infrastructure.
Gonzalez, Ariadna Martinez.

Three Essays on Mexico's Rural Farmers, Poverty, and Connective Infrastructure. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 157 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2018.

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze some aspects of the complex reality of rural farmers and poverty in Mexico. The first essay examines the incidence (or capitalization) of the most important agricultural subsidy program in Mexico: the Program of Direct Supports to the Farmland (PROCAMPO) on farmland rental rates. In this analysis, I use survey data collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Mexico's Ministry of Agriculture (SAGARPA) for the agricultural year 2008/2009. I utilize a Ricardian model and the standard hedonic regression approach augmented by quantile regression analysis to investigate the incidence of the PROCAMPO program across the rental rate distribution paid by tenant farmers. Overall, these results suggest that the PROCAMPO subsidy is not passed through from tenant farmers to their landowners and thus the program successfully supports the income of tenant farmers.

ISBN: 9780438592230Subjects--Topical Terms:

1556984
Economic theory.

Three Essays on Mexico's Rural Farmers, Poverty, and Connective Infrastructure.
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520 $a The second essay investigates the effect of connective infrastructure on poverty, where connective infrastructure is measured as kilometers of highways. The main empirical challenge is that connective infrastructure and poverty are endogenous. This work builds on recent literature that employs instrumental variables (IV) to control for this endogeneity. One of these IVs has not been used before in the literature: the distance from the centroid of each municipality to the optimal highway system derived from relocating the kilometers of highways in 1997 so that they minimize the distance to the centroids of population. The results of this research suggest that the effect of an increase in highway infrastructure on the poverty rate is not significantly different from zero when the best specification is used. In the most optimistic case, an increase in highway infrastructure by 1% reduces the poverty rate by 9.5 percentage points. According to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, this means that the average cost of getting one person out of poverty would be 2,600 US dollars spread over 13 years. Consequently, a more assertive decision is to rely on the results of the better-specified models and state that this research found that the effect of highway infrastructure is not significantly different from zero.
520 $a The third paper explores the relationship between urbanization and the presence of poverty in Mexico, and how this relationship differs with use of different poverty measures. Utilizing data from the Mexican government and estimating a fractional response model, this paper finds that the poverty rate and the multidimensional poverty measure yield different information about the relationship of urbanization to poverty, which could lead to different conclusions and policy recommendations. The results show that most of my estimates fit the expectation that rurality and the poverty rate are positively related. However, the results for municipalities with a relatively higher share of the most rural localities suggest that there is a tradeoff between rural and urban poverty. Urban migration may prevent larger increases in rural poverty by causing poverty to be displaced toward Mexican urban areas (De Janvry and Sadoulet 2004), maybe because the increased population puts more pressure on urban services.
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