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

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Marina Paez

Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) - Department of Macroeconomics

Ajax R. Moreira

Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) - Directory of Macroeconomic Policy & Studies (DIMAC)

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

Suggested Citation

Paez, Marina and Moreira, Ajax R., Neighborhood Effect on Agricultural Activity: A Measure of the Productivity and Occupation of the Amazon (September 2002). IPEA Discussion Paper No. 907, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=341143 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.341143

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