Listagem por autor "Assunção, Juliano Junqueira"
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Affirmative action in college admission and the proficiency of high school students
2005-10-06Economic theory suggests that a¢ rmative action can either reduce or enhance incentives to invest in human capital. Empirical evidence on this matter, however, is still lacking. Using di¤erence in di¤er- ence estimates, ... -
Can unobserved heterogeneity in farmer ability explain the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity?
2003-03-27The well-known inverse relationship between farm-size and productivity is usually explained in terms of diminishing returns with respect to land and other inputs coupled with various types of market frictions that prevent ... -
Estimating economic interactions of financial suppliers in Thailand
2004-05-20This paper presents a methodology to estimate and identify different kinds of economic interaction, whenever these interactions can be established in the form of spatial dependence. First, we apply the semi-parametric ... -
Land taxes in a Latin American context
2004-02-01Since Henry George (1839-1897) economists have been arguing that a tax on unimproved land is an ideal tax on efficiency grounds. Output taxes, on the other hand, have distortionary effects on the economy. This paper shows ... -
Testing household-specific explanations for the inverse productivity relationship
2007The inverse relationship between land productivity and farm size is an old and puzzling empirical regularity. Most explanations for this relationship rely on market imperfections that jointly determine the farm size and ... -
Towards a truthful land taxation mechanism in Brazil
2001-05-01This paper shows that the asymmetric information present in the relationship between the government and agricultural producers has led to persistent problems in the application of land taxes (Imposto Territorial Rural - ...
