farm technical efficiency for small-scale rice farms in eastern India. In contrast with the existing literature, we find …

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 …

This article integrates fuzzy set theory in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework to compute technical efficiency … situations, input and output data may be imprecise. We present an approach of measuring efficiency when data is known to lie …. Compared to the convectional DEA scores that are point estimates, the computed fuzzy efficiency scores allow the decision maker …

A method is developed to integrate the efficiency concepts of technical, allocative, and scale inefficiencies (TI, AI … weighted DEA (WDEA) approach takes a weighted average of the profit, constant returns to scale (CRS), and VRS frontiers, so … maintained properties of a data generating process. The potential estimation efficiency gain arises from exploiting sample …

The article aims to investigate how operational managerial practices can contribute to improved farm level efficiency … contribution of the article is that it investigates aspects that can be adjusted every day to improve farm efficiency. Aspects … describing each of the considered managerial practices are regressed on farm level data envelopment efficiency scores based on …

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. …