Neighborhood Effect on Agricultural Activity: A Measure of the Productivity and Occupation of the Amazon
IPEA Discussion Paper No. 907
38 Pages Posted: 5 Nov 2002
Date Written: September 2002
Abstract
The neighborhood effect was used to analyze two problems of farm activity in Brazil. The first estimate a measure of total factor productivity for 550 homogeneous microregion, that is defined as a latent variable with the spatial trend propriety. The second analyze the occupation process in the Legal Amazon countries, with a model that uses the temporal and spatial iterations to represent the occupation process.
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Keywords: Spatial econometrics, Bayesian statistics, neighborhood effect on agricultural activity, dynamic models, Amazon occupation
JEL Classification: C21
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