Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …

technical efficiency in production. Second, it applies various stochastic frontier panel data models to estimate the technical …The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it compares the performance of various panel data models in estimating … efficiency of Iran's cotton production and to provide empirical evidence on the sources of technical inefficiency of cotton …

particular) are more educated than non-adopters, and they are also more likely to already hold a bank account. Positive self …

Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial … work suggests that mobile money can accelerate urbanization and structural change in Sub-Saharan Africa …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …