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Genethics and Human Reproduction: Religious Perspectives in the Academic Bioethics Literature

The successes of the human genome project and genomics research programs portend great potential to improve upon health and enhance life. As scientific advancements continue, bioethicists and policy makers deliberate over the social and ethical implications of genetic and genomic technologies and information (ggT/I). The application of ggT/I to human reproduction raises conceptual and moral questions about being human and the links between offspring, parents, and society.

The impact of remittances on domestic tourism in Mexico

In this paper we use data from the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey for the years 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 to evaluate the impact of internal and international remittances on Domestic Tourism Consumption in Mexico. Using treatment and multi-treatment techniques, the results of this research show that the reception of remittances has a positive impact on tourism spending. In fact, the probability that a household will spend on domestic tourism doubles if it receives international remittances compared to internal remittances.

International financial inclusion: Multidimensional determinants of access to saving and credit

This work assesses quantitatively the determinants of two of the main indicators of financial inclusion: savings account ownership and credit access. Through the use of a dynamic panel, this work verifies that on the supply side, formal saving requires an infrastructure to access these services, as well as palliatives to the asymmetric information in the financial sector, while on the demand side, the education and the stability of income sources of its potential users are crucial.

Violence and Avoidance Behavior: The Case of the Mexican Drug War

This paper examines the effect of violence, originated from the Mexican Drug War, on avoidance behavior. The analysis uses three different variables to capture avoidance behavior by easiness to do, during the past year: refrained from going out at night (easy-to-avoid), refrained from carrying cash (medium-to-avoid) and refrained from using public transportation (hard-to-avoid). Data comes from different government sources and crime victimization surveys.

Creative Mindsets and Their Affective and Social Consequences: A Latent Class Approach

In two studies, we tested the conceptualization of creative mindsets as latent classes, and examined several social and affective consequences of class membership. Business students completed a battery of questionnaires assessing creative personal identity, creative mindsets, social comparisons, pride, gratitude, anger, and sadness.

The Influence of Marketing Capability in Mexican Social Enterprises

Social enterprises need to develop processes that create social value to solve social problems. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effect of marketing capability on social innovation and its effect on social and economic value creation, while controlling for firm size among social enterprises in Mexico. An explanatory and cross-sectional design was used to test the hypotheses: 118 social business managers were interviewed and structural equation modeling was used to test our research hypotheses.

The role of cognitive feelings and content information in the evaluations of sport brands

Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was twofold. First, we examined the influence of cognitive feelings and content information on evaluations of sports brands coming from sports goods manufacturing. Second, we examined if the hypothesized mediation effect of cognitive feelings was moderated by experiential thinking style.

La eficiencia de los múltiplos de capital: caso México

Los múltiplos de capital son razones financieras ampliamente utilizadas por los analistas financieros con el propósito de tomar decisiones de inversión en acciones (P) de las empresas que cotizan en los mercados bursátiles. Los dos principales indicadores son el precio de la acción a utilidad neta (PU) y el valor mercado a valor en libros (P/VL). Ambos múltiplos tienen como factor común la perspectiva del mercado con respecto al valor en libros de la utilidad neta y el capital contable.

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