Income, Mortality, and Literacy Distribution Dynamics Across States in Mexico: 1940-2000

Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu ()

Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, 2005, vol. 42, issue 125, 165-192

Abstract: This paper analyzes the dynamics of the distributions of per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the infant mortality rate, and the adult literacy rate across states in Mexico between 1994 and 2000. It analyzes the hypothesis of convergence to a common l

Keywords: Convergence; distribution dynamics; markov chain; kernel densities; transition matrix; panel data; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D30 E13 O18 O49 O54 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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