Sara Avila

University of Colorado Boulder | CUB · Department of Economics and Continuing Ed

More than twenty-two million people live in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. Depending on the municipality where they live, residents have different access to green areas. In this chapter, we show that less educated and lower-income residents have less availability of green spaces. Mexico City residents compensate for the lack of green areas by m...

Los habitantes de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de méxico (ZMVM) tienen diferentes niveles de disponibilidad de áreas verdes, dependiendo de la alcaldía o municipio donde viven. Estas dife-rencias, por sí mismas, no son necesariamente de importancia para la política pública; sin embargo, en este capítulo mostramos que los habitantes con menor edu...

Our paper adds to the aging mobilities literature by addressing the need for more empirical studies in the Global South and utilizing the 2017 Household Origin-Destination Survey (HODS 2017) to broadly understand the mobility of older adults in Mexico City. We use descriptive statistics to reveal travel behavior patterns and construct a multinomial...

The Upper Gulf of California is a diverse and highly productive ecosystem supporting some of the most important fisheries in Mexico, yet a history of weak fishery management and illegal fishing threatens the area’s biodiversity and undermines human well-being in the communities along its shores. The vaquita ( Phocoena sinus) is endemic to these wat...

The transition of artisanal fishing communities to alternative livelihoods is a pressing issue around the world-due to either overexploitation of the fishing stock or climate change related impacts or biodiversity loss associated with by-catch. Learning the factors that increase the probability of a successful transition is useful for policy design...

Affluent commuters in Mexico City are 20% more likely to own and use a private car to commute. We find that gender and age are also determinants of mode choice. Women are 20% more likely to commute in transit and men are 16% more likely to use a car. Being older increases the probability to use transit and decreases the probability to use car or mo...

ABSTRACT This article analyzes the differential impact of economic globalization, the size and the composition of the economy and the nature of the political regime over national CO2 emission levels. We found that emissions are positively correlated with the national level of economic development, with the relative weight of certain sectors in the...

Vaquita marina, a small species of porpoise endemic to the Northern Gulf of California in Mexico, is the world’s most endangered cetacean species. With the purpose of preserving vaquita, the Mexican government launched PACE-Vaquita in 2008. This voluntary program offers an innovative schedule of compensations: as in a payment-for-conservation progr...

The book contains the research project done between 2005 and 2006 aimed at studying water use in Mexico and evaluate alternative water policies, with emphasis on the Rio Bravo basin in the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. This study will bring together economists and engineers in a novel integration of economic and hydrolo...

An optimal pesticide tax would discriminate among the substances marketed according to their toxicity levels. Adopting such a tax in Mexico is the most efficient way to prepare for compliance with the future extension of the list of pesticides subject to phase-outs and elimination under international agreements. This article examines the implicatio...

The third meeting of the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA) was held on 19-23 January 2004 in Ensenada, Baja California Norte, Mexico. The meeting consisted of two parts – a scientific workshop on 19-20 January and a socioeconomic workshop on 21-23 January. This report covers the latter. The purpose of the socioeconomic...

This paper examines the possibility of the removal of the subsidy to the electric tariff for pumping for irrigation purposes. Benefits are obtained since aquifers are less over- exploited and a more efficient use of the water is promoted in rural areas.

The contingent valuation method is applied to obtain the amount at which people who live in the metro- politan Areas of mexico City are willing to return soda plastic containers. The study shows that two pesos is enough for 87% of containers to be returned.