While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...

Learning or experience curves are widely used to estimate cost functions in manufacturing modeling. They have recently been introduced in policy models of energy and global warming economics to make the process of technological change endogenous. It is not widely appreciated that this is a...

The current and future performance of regional health systems is responsible for increasing health costs and it depends on a wide range of contextual factors. Studies on regional health productive performance and on different health systems are scarce. This paper focuses on the efficiency of...

Government subsidization of insurance is commonly employed as a policy tool to incentivize risk management activities, complete missing markets, and facilitate redistribution of wealth. Despite the growth of such programs, characterizing their impacts and uptake using readily available...

This paper develops the proxy variable for food away from home price to solve the omitted variable problem in FAFH expenditure. Secondly, this paper incorporates two equations for FAFH price and demand to capture the minimum wage shock on food away from home expenditure. Decomposing food away...

Farmland is an essential agricultural production factor that farmers can choose to either buy or rent. In this paper, we apply a discrete choice experiment to analyse German farmers' individual buying and rental decisions for farmland. Our results reveal that farmers have a higher willingness to...

Considering the important role of irrigation in the socio-economic development of the Alentejo region in Portugal, this paper aims to assess the economic impact of water pricing in the context of the public irrigation perimeter of Odivelas in that region. The methodological framework uses the...

Finite mixture estimation (FME) is compared to estimated generalized least squares (EGLS) in the estimation of economies of size and production cost frontiers for Alabama dairy farms. FME provides several unique insights into the economic forces behind recent changes in Alabama's dairy industry....

The objective of this paper is to investigate the relative contribution of input use, technological change and technical efficiency to the production growth of the Greek agricultural sector, using a stochastic production frontier method (Battese and Coelli, 1999) to a panel of 608 farms over the...