A 2008 Social Accounting Matrix for Mexico

dc.creatorDebowicz, Dario
dc.creatorGolan, Jennifer
dc.date2012
dc.date2024-06-04T09:44:12Z
dc.date2024-06-04T09:44:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:31:05Z
dc.descriptionThis Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) was built for the year 2008 for Mexico. It explicitly accounts for Oportunidades cash transfers. In this SAM, the government has a separate account for providing Oportunidades cash transfers to recipient households. The SAM has 14 different activities of production, 15 production factors, and 16 household groups. Using a cross-entropy technique,the SAM was balanced and made perfectly consistent with macro accounts of Mexico. This SAM was used to analyze the distributional effects of the Oportunidades conditional cash transfers in a top-down b ottom-up macro-micro simulation model that links in bi-directional and iterative way a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and an econometrically informed micro simulation model.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/144460
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/106683
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDebowicz, Dario; Golan, Jennifer. 2012. A 2008 Social Accounting Matrix for Mexico. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5L6XOE. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectcomputable general equilibrium models
dc.subjectsocial accounting matrix
dc.subjectcash transfers
dc.subjectcommodity markets
dc.titleA 2008 Social Accounting Matrix for Mexico
dc.typeDataset

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