This paper studies the effect of local off-farm employment and migration on rural households’ technical efficiency of … not much debate about the positive contribution of migration and local off-farm employment to China’s economy, there is an … increasing concern about the potential negative effects of moving labor away from agriculture on China’s future food security …

scientists the potential to validate, reject, refine and redefine the individual models of resource allocation that form the …

(CET) frontier. In the nested structure, land owner of particular type of land (AEZ) first decides on the allocation of … in crop and livestock production, the land owner decides on the allocation of land between these two broad types of …

estimate a stochastic production technology frontier to compare technical efficiency of farmers in the extension program. We … test for returns to scale, examine factors affecting technical efficiency of participants, and compare technical efficiency … size producers.Technical efficiency of participants is increasing overtime, younger participants are technically more …

between male and female CEOs in financial firms and in NGOs. We adapt the banking approach to managerial efficiency to account … for the outreach and sustainability goals of Microfinance Institutions. We then evaluate whether outreach efficiency … have 12-14 point higher outreach efficiency suggesting that promoting gender diversity at the top is likely to have social …

The existing literature on dynamic efficiency is deterministic and ignores uncertainty when deriving dynamic efficiency …-fixed factors. Here, we contribute to closing this gap by developing a model that takes the dynamic efficiency measurement and the … way in the long run, and to explore the role of uncertainty within the optimal factor allocation process. We find …