This thesis will seek to address the scope of violence that migrants encounter in transit on the Central American Migrant Trail and evaluate the effectiveness …
This dissertation examines the production and circulation of policy evaluation as an instrument of democratic accountability in contemporary Mexico. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic …
The Return of the Contemporary seeks to frame debates about the semantics of our present through a hemispheric analysis of Latin American and Caribbean literature …
Abstract of ESSAYS IN APPLIED MICROECONOMICS, by AURORA ALEJANDRA RAMÍREZ ÁLVAREZ, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2017 Essays in Applied Microeconomics contains two main chapters written …
Insurance Type and Use of Contraceptive Methods among Women of Reproductive Age in Mexico: Evidence from the 2015 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Objectives. The purpose …
How do politicians’ incentives and resources shape the type of policies that they adopt? One of the key redistributive roles of governments is to provide …
This thesis analyzes power relations in the forms of asymmetries and hierarchies of gender and race. The analysis falls on three texts, Sor Juana Inés …
Little historical research has examined the conceptions of students regarding the international during the Mexico City popular-student movement of 1968, a year that has been …
This dissertation consists three quantitative analyses that aim to examine the impact of migration not only on migrants themselves, but also on their young children …
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 permanently shifted the nation’s political scene, but its success is debated. My dissertation project addresses the question of how Mexico’s …
