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Affirmative action in college admission and the proficiency of high school students

Assunção, Juliano Junqueira
2005-10-06

Economic 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?

Assunção, Juliano Junqueira
2003-03-27

The 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

Assunção, Juliano Junqueira
2004-05-20

This 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 ...