El municipio como proveedor de servicios públicos en Michoacán: un estudio de la eficiencia a través del análisis de la envolvente de datos (DEA)

Julio César Morán Figueroa (2018, [Tesis de maestría])

Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Empresariales. Maestría en Políticas Públicas

The municipal public services are activities carried out by the governments of the municipalities in order to satisfy collective needs. From an economic conception we can understand municipal governments as production units, which make use of their own inputs (resources) to generate a set of outputs (public services) that meet the needs of consumers (inhabitants of the municipality). This process of production of public services has an immediate impact on the quality of life of citizens. For this reason it becomes essential to estimate the efficiency in the use that municipal governments make of public resources to provide basic services of collective interest. The objective of this research is to identify the degree of efficiency of municipal governments in the use of investment expenditure and the cost of personal services in the provision of public lighting services, garbage collection and public safety to citizens of the state of Michoacán in the year 2014. In order to achieve this objective, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method was used, through which an efficiency frontier was estimated that allowed calculating the efficiency levels of the 113 municipalities of Michoacán to produce public services. An additional benefit of the DEA method is that it generates additional information (slacks variables) to propose to the inefficient municipalities improvement actions based on the results of the efficient municipalities. The results of the model showed that only 22 municipalities (19.47% of the total) had a degree of efficiency of 100% in the management of their resources for the production of municipal public services. From the results, various improvement actions are proposed based on the slacks variables so that the inefficient municipalities improve their policies regarding public services.

Los servicios públicos municipales son actividades que llevan a cabo los gobiernos de los municipios con el fin de satisfacer necesidades colectivas. Desde una concepción económica podemos entender a los gobiernos municipales como unidades de producción, que hacen uso de sus propios inputs (recursos) para generar un conjunto de outputs (servicios públicos) que satisfacen las necesidades de los consumidores (habitantes del municipio). Este proceso de producción de servicios públicos repercute de forma inmediata en la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos. Por tal razón se vuelve imprescindible la medición de la eficiencia en el uso que los gobiernos municipales hacen de los recursos públicos para proveer servicios básicos de interés colectivo. El objetivo de esta investigación consiste en identificar el grado de eficiencia de los gobiernos municipales en la utilización del gasto de inversión y del gasto de servicios personales en la provisión de los servicios de alumbrado público, recolección de basura y seguridad pública a los ciudadanos del estado de Michoacán en el año 2014. Para lograr este objetivo se utilizó el método del Análisis de la Envolvente de Datos (DEA), a través del cual, se estimó una frontera de eficiencia que permitió calcular los niveles de eficiencia de los 113 municipios de Michoacán para producir servicios públicos. Una bondad adicional del método DEA es que genera información adicional (variables slacks) para proponer a los municipios ineficientes acciones de mejora a partir de los resultados de los municipios eficientes. Los resultados del modelo arrojaron que solo 22 municipios tuvieron un grado de eficiencia del 100% en el manejo de sus recursos para la producción de servicios públicos municipales. De los resultados se proponen diversas acciones de mejora a partir de las variables slacks para que los municipios ineficientes mejoren sus políticas en materia de servicios públicos.

CIENCIAS SOCIALES ININEE-M-2018-0659 Método DEA Gobiernos municipales Inputs Outputs

Using microsatellite data to estimate the persistence of field-level yield gaps and their drivers in smallholder systems

Balwinder-Singh Meha Jain (2023, [Artículo])

One way to meet growing food demand is to increase yields in regions that have large yield gaps, including smallholder systems. To do this, it is important to quantify yield gaps, their persistence, and their drivers at large spatio-temporal scales. Here we use microsatellite data to map field-level yields from 2014 to 2018 in Bihar, India and use these data to assess the magnitude, persistence, and drivers of yield gaps at the landscape scale. We find that overall yield gaps are large (33% of mean yields), but only 17% of yields are persistent across time. We find that sowing date, plot area, and weather are the factors that most explain variation in yield gaps across our study region, with earlier sowing associated with significantly higher yield values. Simulations suggest that if all farmers were able to adopt ideal management strategies, including earlier sowing and more irrigation use, yield gaps could be closed by up to 42%. These results highlight the ability of micro-satellite data to understand yield gaps and their drivers, and can be used to help identify ways to increase production in smallholder systems across the globe.

Yield Drivers Yield Mapping CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA MICROSATELLITES YIELD GAP SMALLHOLDERS FOOD PRODUCTION YIELD INCREASES

Regional analysis of the wage discrimination in the indigenous workers in Mexico

Christian De la Luz-Tovar SIBYL ITALIA PINEDA SALAZAR (2023, [Artículo, Artículo])

The objective of this research is to estimate and decompose the wage gap between indigenous and non-indigenous workers by region in Mexico, to examine whether there are regional differences in the existing wage inequality that a priori affects the indigenous population and whether these differences can be attributed to the job profile of this group or by systematic labor discrimination against them. Using the data from the 2018 National Household Expenditure Revenue Survey (ENIGH-N) and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, it was found that indigenous workers face a wage gap in all regions of the county. But, this gap is more pronounced in the center and south regions, where, on average, the associated component with labor discrimination has a percentage greater than 56. In contrast, in the north-central and northern regions of Mexico, the residual component is on average less than 33%, which suggests that the wage gap is explained by differences in productivity between groups.                         

Labor economics Ethnicity wage gap Indigenous population Regions Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition Economía laboral Brecha salarial étnica Población indígena Regiones Descomposición de Oaxaca-Blinder CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Digital artifacts reveal development and diffusion of climate research

Bia Carneiro Tek Sapkota (2022, [Artículo])

Accessible Knowledge Impact of Outputs Traditional Bibliometric Analyses Hyperlink Analysis CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CLIMATE DIFFUSION MAIZE MINING ORGANIZATION SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS WHEAT TEXT MINING

Regional analysis of the wage discrimination in the indigenous workers in Mexico

Christian De la Luz-Tovar SIBYL ITALIA PINEDA SALAZAR (2023, [Artículo, Artículo])

The objective of this research is to estimate and decompose the wage gap between indigenous and non-indigenous workers by region in Mexico, to examine whether there are regional differences in the existing wage inequality that a priori affects the indigenous population and whether these differences can be attributed to the job profile of this group or by systematic labor discrimination against them. Using the data from the 2018 National Household Expenditure Revenue Survey (ENIGH-N) and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, it was found that indigenous workers face a wage gap in all regions of the county. But, this gap is more pronounced in the center and south regions, where, on average, the associated component with labor discrimination has a percentage greater than 56. In contrast, in the north-central and northern regions of Mexico, the residual component is on average less than 33%, which suggests that the wage gap is explained by differences in productivity between groups.                         

Labor economics Ethnicity wage gap Indigenous population Regions Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition Economía laboral Brecha salarial étnica Población indígena Regiones Descomposición de Oaxaca-Blinder CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES