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Ciclo de vida humano y ciclo de vida urbano: Urbanización y desarrollo económico

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  • David Mayer-Foulkes

    (Division of Economics, CIDE)

  • Grodecz Alfredo Ramírez Fuentes

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Human development and urban development play essential and intimately interacting roles in economic development. The availability and cost of the basic inputs in health, education, work and housing depend on the urban-rural context. On the other hand urban growth is shaped by the cumulus of human activity. The very existence of the socio-geographic mosaic is sufficient evidence of the degree to which urban and human development interact, following a stratified and divergent pattern of development. Research simultaneously addressing both topics requires combining a) detailed microeconomic information allowing the study of individual and family decisions with b) information on their geographic context that originates mainly from INEGI censuses and other sources. Doing this systematically opens a research platform in which diverse researchers and institutions can participate. We propose several specific research projects that cover topics such as the relation between the labor market and the adoption of new technologies with their urban context, the relation between migration and education, health labor and other decisions, and other topics. We show with preliminary estimates that the interactions between human and urban development are substantive and significant. The main objective of this research program is to be able to propose public policies that simultaneously address human and urban development.

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  • David Mayer-Foulkes & Grodecz Alfredo Ramírez Fuentes, 2011. "Ciclo de vida humano y ciclo de vida urbano: Urbanización y desarrollo económico," Working Papers DTE 503, CIDE, División de Economía.
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    Keywords

    Human development; urban development; health; education; work;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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