Mexico

Paying landowners to conserve their forested land is a leading approach to prevent deforestation. Evidence from Mexico shows that smarter contract design can more than quadruple cost-effectiveness.

Women in Mexico who switched to digital cash transfers face higher costs and time accessing payments but gain bargaining power. Improving ATM access, reducing fees, providing timely information on the date of transfers and boosting financial literacy...

Colonial segregation policies in Mexico City entrenched divisions between Spaniards and indigenous communities, shaping modern economic inequalities because of weak property rights, unequal provision of public goods and enduring social stigma.

Digital information campaigns on social media can be used to disseminate objective information about government performance and bolster electoral accountability. Targeting information at a larger share of the electorate can raise the effectiveness of...

Increasing the cost of informal employment raised formalisation rates for workers at formal firms. However, it also led to a large, persistent drop in firm size. There is a trade-off between higher formalisation rates for current employees and lower ...

Mexico’s preschool mandate in 2002 shows significant, lasting benefits for cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills after six years, and educational outcomes nearly two decades later.

Evidence on schooling decisions in Mexico City reveals what the impact of performance feedback in education would be if implemented at a large scale.

Municipalities with oil pipelines in Mexico saw a 30% increase in cartel presence after the war on drugs began, resulting in severe economic and social impacts.

A large-scale debit card rollout to cash transfer recipients in Mexico led small retailers to adopt point-of-sale terminals and had a broad range of impacts on financial technology adoption, shopping behaviour, and retailer sales and profits.