Plesha, Nataliya; Ray, Subhash C.; Nehring, Richard F.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
at a high level of efficiency. However, the USDA shows that 2011 pesticide expenses increased by about $100 million … findings on the efficiency score measures with undesirable or bad outputs and the offending bad input (i.e., pesticides and … using a unique panel of state-level data set for 1960-1997. Our preliminary findings indicate that the efficiency scores for …