TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skoufias,Emmanuel
AU  - Lunde,Trine
AU  - Patrinos,Harry Anthony
AU  - Skoufias,Emmanuel
TI  - Social Networks Among Indigenous Peoples in Mexico: Social Networks Among Indigenous Peoples in Mexico 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Communities and Human Settlements
KW  - Cultural Heritage and Preservation
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Culture and Development
KW  - Disadvantaged groups
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - E-Business
KW  - Economic opportunities
KW  - Effective policies
KW  - Employment opportunities
KW  - Housing and Human Habitats
KW  - Human capital
KW  - Indigenous people
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Indigenous populations
KW  - Industry
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Labor and Social Protections
KW  - Labor Policies
KW  - Migration
KW  - Natural resources
KW  - Policy research
KW  - Policy research working paper
KW  - Population
KW  - Population Policies
KW  - Private Sector Development
KW  - Progress
KW  - Respect
KW  - Rural areas
KW  - Rural Development
KW  - Rural Poverty Reduction
KW  - School attendance
KW  - Social Capital
KW  - Social Development
KW  - Sustainable management
KW  - Technology Industry
KW  - Traditional values
N2  - This paper examines the extent to which social networks among indigenous peoples have a significant effect on a variety of human capital investment and economic activities, such as school attendance and work among teenage boys and girls, and migration, welfare participation, employment status, occupation and sector of employment among adult males and females. The analysis uses data from the 10 percent population sample of the 2000 Population and Housing Census of Mexico and an empirical strategy that allows taking into account the role of municipality and language group fixed effects. The authors confirm empirically that social network effects play an important role in the economic decisions of indigenous people, especially in rural areas. The analysis also provides evidence that better access to basic services, such as water and electricity, increases the size and strength of network effects in rural areas
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-4949
ER  -