Browsing by Subject "Yucatán"

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    • Internal Migration to Yucatán, Mexico: Moving for Security 

      Mattiace, Shannan; Nonnenmacher, Tomas (University of California Press, 2022-11-01)
      Between 2000 and 2020, over one-third of the population increase of Yucatán’s capital city, Mérida, was due to the increase in the population born in another state in Mexico. Compared to the rest of Mexico and to Yucatán’s ...

    • The Organization of Hacienda Labor during the Mexican Revolution: Evidence from Yucatán 

      Mattiace, Shannan; Nonnenmacher, Tomas (University of California Press, 2014-06-01)
      Beginning in 1914, Yucatecan revolutionary governors promulgated a series of decrees that liberated and regulated labor on henequen haciendas. The first of these decrees banned debt peonage, immediately weakening the ...

    • Yucatan as an Exception to Rising Criminal Violence in Mexico 

      Mattiace, Shannan; Ley, Sandra (Sage Publications LTD, 2022-04)
      Yucatan state's homicide level has remained low and steady for decades and criminal violence activity is low, even while crime rates in much of the rest of the country have increased since 2006. In this research note, we ...