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Item A Historical Perspective of Economic Development on the Northern Mexico Border(James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy) López-Alonso, Moramay; James A. Baker III Institute for Public PolicySince the 1880s, the northern states of Mexico have been a regional center of economic growth. The development of a network of communications and transportation with the rest of the country and the United States, the emergence of manufacturing and commercial agriculture, and the expansion of mining initially fostered the region’s economic growth. Later, at the onset of the revolutionary era (post-1910), other sectors gained importance, such as oil. For all of the twentieth century, and to this day, the northern border states have been the fastest growing and most productive region in the country, comparable only to Mexico City. This region has benefited from or survived economic policies implemented by Mexico’s government during the twentieth century, for the most part enjoying times of growth and recovering relatively quickly from difficult periods. Its prosperity and proximity to the United States have yielded great economic benefits for some, but have also posed great challenges to the social development of the region in the past decades. In presenting a brief economic history of modern Mexico, highlighting the points relevant to the development of border economies, it is the purpose of this study to provide the non-specialist of the Mexican economy with a background on the evolution of the economies of the northern border states and to identify the origins of the defining features of the contemporary economies of this region.Item Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907(Cambridge University Press, 2023) Escamilla-Guerrero, David; López-Alonso, MoramayWe study the impact of the 1907 Panic, the most severe economic crisis before the Great Depression, on the selection of Mexican immigration. We find that migrants were positively selected on height before the crisis. This pattern changed to negative selection during the crisis but returned to positive selection afterward. Adjustments in selection were partially mediated by the enganche, a historical labor-recruiting system that reduced migration costs but only for taller laborers with above-average earnings potential. We document that labor recruiting contributed to maintaining the relatively constant height profile of the migration flow in the short run.Item Remembering and Forgetting Salvador Allende: An Examination of Institutional Memories in Post-Authoritarian Chile(Rice University, 2016) Meléndez, Mónica Alicia; López-Alonso, MoramayItem The First Era of Protestantism in Mexico: American Protestant Missionaries’ Work and Their Impact, 1873–1914(2022-04-18) Martinez, Cynthia G; López-Alonso, Moramay; Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri; Howard Ecklund, ElaineThis dissertation focuses on American Methodist and Presbyterian missionaries’ work in central Mexico between 1873–1914. It follows the growth of Protestantism in Mexico from an American missionary endeavor to an identity Mexican Protestants defended against the nation’s Catholic majority. The Protestant missionary experience in Mexico is an important missing piece in the history of American missionary work and Porfirian Mexico. While at first glance, missionaries’ work to convert and reform Mexican’s morality through education, temperance, and the medical mission may not seem unique, I contend that the anti-Protestant sentiments they found in Mexico from Catholics drove missionaries to align themselves with the Porfirian government’s agenda. Tracing missionaries’ work through newspapers, missionary records, and personal records shows that missionaries intertwined themselves with the Porfirian idea of order and progress to advance their work. Missionaries framed Protestantism and their work in education, temperance, and the medical mission as important to advancing the moderation of Mexico the Porfirian government endeavored. By becoming allies of the Porfirian government’s agenda, missionaries spread Protestantism throughout central Mexico despite opposition from Catholics. Mexicans who embraced Protestantism saw positive changes in their lives as missionaries supported their educational advancement. Mexican Protestants formed a Mexican Protestant community with missionaries’ aid throughout the Porfirian era, but the Mexican Revolution and, more significantly, the American Intervention in 1914 disrupted the community. This project frames 1914 as the end of the first era of Protestantism not because Protestantism in Mexico came to an end, but because at this juncture, we see a firm Mexican Protestant community that could survive despite Catholic opposition and political disruptions. More broadly, analyzing the development of the Mexican Protestant community in central Mexico between 1873–1914 is important to understand the diversity in Mexican identities and how the meaning of Mexicanness has been redefined over time.