Technical efficiency for Colombian small crop and livestock farmers : a stochastic metafrontier approach for different production systems

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Borradores de Economía; No. 914
Date published
2015-11-12
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2015-11-12
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Melo-Becerra, Ligia Alba
Orozco-Gallo, Antonio José
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spa
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Abstract
This paper assesses the efficiency of crop and livestock production in Colombia by using a sample of 1,565 households. The study considers households located in different production systems which differ in geography, climate and soil types. These conditio
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D24 - Production; Cost; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; CapacityC14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: GeneralQ12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Keywords
Stochastic frontier analysis ; Technical efficiency ; Metafrontier production function ; Colombia ;
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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/6225
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/6225
https://doi.org/10.32468/be.914
https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/914.html
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