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Objective. To know the prevalence of early childhood development (ECD), its determinants, and exposure to violent discipline methods among Mexican children in 2022. Materials and methods. We estimated the ECD, its determinants, and exposure to violent discipline methods indicators following the methodology of Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). We calculated the prevalence for each indicator and disaggregated it by children and sociodemographic characteristics. Results. We found that 19.3% of children aged 24 to 59 months were not developmentally on track. There exists a low attendance to early learning programs (7.1%) and preschool (62.4%). Among children younger than five years old 41.7% did not have access to children's books and 8.1% had inadequate care. Additionally, 55.5% of children aged 1 to 14 years old were exposed to violent discipline methods. Conclusion. The results allow us to know children's situation and guide the public policy aimed to this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research aims to study the determinants of foreign direct investment in the countries of the United States, Canada and Mexico, making a comparison of them. In order to achieve this goal, the theories of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) are first reviewed to understand the behavior and motivation of the introduction of the transnational corporations in the foreign countries. Subsequently, a statistical analysis is carried out in each of the studied countries, highlighting the origin, destination and the factor that impulse their FDI. Finally, the methodological section is reviewed and the econometric measurements are made in the analyzed countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Water for human consumption has become in one of the most complex and diffincult resources of the market. The objective of this paper is to analyze some of the determinants influencing economic valuation and commercialization of this resource in the Estado de México. This analysis is supported by some elements of economic theory that allows contrast with the contemporary conditions of access and enjoyment. The results show the financial character, increasing the social risk and vulnerability. This paper extends the view of water in economic science. It's a milestone that strengthen the holistic discussion to generate concrete and viable proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this document we evaluate the determinants of shipments of hazardous waste to the US. We consider a sample of firms operating in the state of Baja California for the 2008-2010 sample period. The analysis consists on the estimation of two econometric specifications. The first refers to a truncated model in the spirit of Tobit. The second is a probabilistic model. The results of the Tobit model suggest that size, location and origin of the firm influence the amount of shipments. In particular, shipments are positively associated with larger firms; those located in the municipality of Tijuana and those whose origin is foreign. The probabilistic model finds that a depreciation of the Mexican peso contributes to an increase in the likelihood of sending a shipment. This may be the result of an improvement in the border economic environment due to the depreciation of the currency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Mexico had a significant increase in years of schooling in the last 20 years, the quality of its education system -an important determinant of long term growth- is far from being satisfactory. Using the results from the first standardized test in upper middle school (ENLACE MS), the paper shows that a model including household, personal, institutional, and school characteristics can account for more than 40 percent of the total differences observed in math scores. From a policy perspective, the paper's results suggest that education authorities interested in fostering education quality should concentrate in improving school infrastructure, the quality of its teachers and the relationship between students and school authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent times, poverty analyses and policies against poverty have incorporated women as a relevant factor. Nevertheless, some criticisms have been raised against them: first, most of the time, they have relied on an instrumental perspective which does not guarantee better conditions of gender equity; second, poverty analyses have generally become reactive tools that seek to compensate for a current situation, not to prevent it from occurring in the future. This paper therefore proposes to go beyond poverty analyses to identify distinctive features of households derived from social constructions that have an effect on vulnerability, particularly in households headed by women. We point out the importance of an analysis from a gender perspective in order to identify the features which make households more vulnerable to suffering or worsening their conditions of poverty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]