The impact of Different Political Parties on Income Distribution in Mexico (2006-2020)

Diplôme Master The impact of Different Political Parties on Income Distribution in Mexico (2006-2020) eng 2024-09-09 author Fernandez Plascencia Natalia 975408 director Morgan Marc 0000-0002-1761-4346 967858 Service enseignement, recherche, administratif et technique (SdS) (SCSPS) Marc MORGAN Income inequality has remained an important issue in Mexican politics. In the past 20 years Mexico has experienced wide ranging political parties in government. Investigating the development of income distribution over the three most recent administrations, this paper asks which income groups to have benefited most from each administration and why. Using the framework of economic voting theory, this paper argues that each income group benefited the most from the party they tend to vote for. The first part of this paper’s analysis builds on the work of De Rosa, Flores, and Morgan (2024) by using a new data set to create Growth Incidence Curves to investigate the income changes over 14 years for every percentile of the Mexican population. After investigating income composition, the second part of this paper’s analysis investigates changes in economic and social policies possibly explaining the income changes. The results show that while in absolute household per-capita post-tax income change the bottom 50% benefited from PAN, analysis of changes in income as a share show that deciles 4 and 5 experienced the largest gains in shares during MORENA. In the middle 40% increases in post-tax household income were largest during PAN, and for decile 9 during PRI, while in shares it was during MORENA. Lastly, in the top 10% increases in post-tax household income were largest during PAN, while the largest increase in shares was during MORENA. Income Distribution Mexico Income inequality Mexican politics Differet political parties 2006-2020 Dewey 330 Dewey 330.9 Master in Political Economy of Capitalism 123 Département d'histoire, économie et société T5 193 Institut d'histoire économique Paul Bairoch TE false 6cdbe5a2-3b77-4e00-8eff-bb4d1fb6b942 Master thesis Public thesis_website_version.pdf 1160493 application/pdf c0b07164063b76e859e1775666820951947163de153f3bba4e0591633a640233 openAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département d'histoire, économie et société Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut d'histoire économique Paul Bairoch

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