We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 years … of poor performance and decline. That recovery is the consequence of improved efficiency in production resulting from …

average adoption effect on participants by testing for productivity difference between adopters and non-adopters. Secondly, we … 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 …

We study the effects of informal labor sharing arrangements and other social interactions on farmers' productivity in a … developing country context, testing whether these types of social and work interactions lead to productivity gains through … grains production and find large productivity gains (approximately 20 percent) from labor sharing due to synergy effects that …

maximization behavior for aggregation. Individual state estimates of changes in efficiency, technology, and productivity from 1987 … reports the measurement of productivity of dairy production in the various states of the U.S. using recent Census data and non …-parametric Malmquist index techniques. These are total factor productivity measures that do not require the assumption of cost or profit …

the productivity, efficiency change and technical change indices. The model included three inputs (labor, land and … agricultural subsidies may create disincentives for farmers to improve their productivity and efficiency. A higher nonfarm income …Changes and trends in farm productivity have been of intense interest to many involved with agriculture. This study …

measure sub-sector productivity growth in agriculture. However, recent developments have enabled us to estimate total factor … productivity (TFP) growth for crops and livestock accounting for input-output allocation. This paper extends previous work on TFP … measurement for livestock into ruminants and non-ruminant productivity measurement, given the differences in productivity growth …

is that environmental performance is based on the definition of the eco-efficiency as the ratio of economic value added … representing changes due to technological progress (or regress) and due to changes in relative eco-efficiency. The dynamic … progress mostly explain overall environmental performance growth, while relative eco-efficiency changes have been minor for …

This study analyzes difference in efficiency among the U.S. rural hospitals using a two-stage, semi-parametric approach … on the efficiency of these hospitals while Medicare prospective payment system for non-CAH rural hospitals has a positive … effect on hospital efficiency. …

the proposed methodology that provides robust farm efficiency scores estimates. Using the 2007 Farm Accountancy Data … Network (FADN) data for Greece, analysis shows that the distribution of efficiency scores is closer to normality when … employing regression quantiles, while underestimation of efficiency obtained by other parametric or deterministic methods based …