The neigbohood effect was used to analyze two problems of farm activity in Brazil. The first estimate a measure of total factor productivity for 550 homogeneous micro region, that is defined as a latent variable with the spatial trend propriety. The second analyze the occupation process in the...

The work investigates the demographic, economic and social determinants of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian househols with their income. For that, a ordered logit model is estimated in order to explain the performance of a subjective indicator of income sufficiency built with basis on...