Replication Data for: \"A Pandemic Crossing the Border: The Impact of Covid-19 in the US on the Mexican Labor Market\"

The labor markets in the US and Mexico are closely linked through migrant workers and remittances and the changes in remittance flow may alter labor allocations in the origin households. In this paper, we investigate how the prevalence of the Covid-19 epidemic in the US affected the local labor market in Mexico. We construct a Mexican municipality-level measure of the exposure to Covid-19 in the US using data on Covid-19 prevalence across US states and data on migrants' destinations across the US states. We find a positive effect of Covid-19 exposure in the US on the hours worked among workers in Mexico yet no significant effects were found for the local wages. We also find that the effect varies across subgroups which indicates that the responses in hours worked depend on the household dynamics, the nature of the occupation-specific tasks, and the migration intensity. Finally, we document the potential mechanism behind the effect on the hours worked, which is through the changes in remittances sent to the origin municipalities in Mexico.