Characterizing uninsured population in Mexico: a multinomial analysis
Abstract
Purpose
This research highlights the importance of understanding the characteristics of the uninsured population in Mexico, as it is closely related to economic growth. Those characteristics that are not economic but behavioral are especially important to incentivize insurance purchases in the population with sufficient resources.
Introduction: The shipbuilding industry in the Spanish Caribbean, 1400s–1700s: Construction, maintenance, supply of materials, and financing
Abstract
Despite the subject’s importance, historiography has overlooked the shipbuilding industry and its supplies in the Spanish Caribbean, hence the need for this forum. It contributes to naval historiography by offering four case studies that discuss shipbuilding activities in shipyards and the supply of materials, especially the main raw material – wood.