Stochastic Production Frontier Approach
Efficiency in Damage Control Inputs: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach
... farm production so that accurate estimates of the damage control inputs to be ...farm production is not efficient, policy measures directed to improve farmers know-how may well reduce chemical use and ...
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Productivity and Resource Use Efficiency in Wheat: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach
... wheat production in the state of Bihar has been studied using stochastic frontier production function ...in production of wheat in the state was estimated to be 94 per cent, emphasizing ...
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Aggregate Matching Efficiency : A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach, France 1990-1994
... a production process and because the emphasis is on matching efficiency estimates, specifying the empirical model as a stochastic production frontier model seems a most natural modelling ...
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Farmers' health status, agricultural efficiency, and poverty in rural Ethiopia: A stochastic production frontier approach
... The importance of the role of health in promoting economic development has been highlighted by Sachs (2001) in the Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Indeed, improvements in health care increase the ...
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Technical Efficiency of Boro Rice Production in Meherpur District of Bangladesh: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... rice production and its determinants in Jamalpur district of ...a stochastic production frontier approach was employed to estimate technical efficiency and determinants of efficiency in ...
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EFFICIENCY OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALBANIA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... use production per unit of inputs, or average production per unit of input use could be ...more production and associated perhaps with high ...holds, production per unit of input or ...
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Specification Testing of Production Frontier Function in Stochastic Frontier Model
... Parametric production frontier function has been commonly employed in stochas- tic frontier model but there was no proper test statistic for its ...parametric production frontier ...
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Technical efficiency analysis of yam production in Edo state: A stochastic frontier approach
... The technical efficiency of yam farmers in Edo State was analysed in this study using the Stochastic Frontier Production Model. A multistage sampling technique was employed to select the 180 yam ...
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Analysis of technical efficiency of rice production in fogera district of Ethiopia: A stochastic frontier approach
... improve production and productivity with a given input mix and available technology is to improve efficiency of resource ...the production process is very ...rice production in Fogera District of ...
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Technical Efficiency of Hybrid Maize Production in Eastern Terai of Nepal: a Stochastic Frontier Approach
... maize production district in the eastern Gangetic plain of ...crop production, hybrid maize input cost and return, training received and problems on hybrid maize ...A stochastic frontier model ...
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Applications of the stochastic frontier approach in Energy Economics
... The second area of application, relatively new, is the estimation of the level of efficiency in the use of energy at the aggregate level. In order to reduce the environmental problems created by fossil-fuel-based energy ...
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Endogeneity corrected stochastic production frontier and technical efficiency
... estimating production parameters and technical efficiency is the possibility that some forces influencing production are only observed by the firm and not by the ...(2003) approach and provide an ...
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Cost efficiency of small-scale commercial broiler production in Zambia: A stochastic cost frontier approach
... included production inputs and output namely: quantities and prices of chicks, feed, veterinary drugs, litter, utilities (water and electricity), transport, and initial capital investment, birds sold and also ...
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Technical Efficiency of Small Scale Maize Production inMasaiti District, Zambia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... Data for this study were collected from smallholder maize farming households in Kafubu farm block in Masaiti district on the Copperbelt province in Zambia. Geographically, Masaiti district is located approximately 35 ...
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Technical Efficiency of Maize Production in Fluoride Affected Locales, Tamil Nadu: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... grain production (APEDA ...in production is due to increase in yield (Thomas et ...maize production among fluoride affected and non affected locales of Tamil ...
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Technical and economic efficiency of rice production in the Kou valley (Burkina Faso): Stochastic frontier approach
... The stochastic frontier approach was used to estimate the production function, from a Cobb- Douglas stochastic frontier function and its dual which allow the estimation of the ...
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Technical Efficiency of Cricket (A. domesticus and G. bimaculatus) Production: A Cobb-Douglas Stochastic Frontier Approach
... of production and possibly the main reason for the decreasing returns to scale experienced in the cricket ...on production of Irish potato in Nyandarua, Kenya. Management and production activities ...
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Technical Efficiency of Certified Maize Seed in Palpa District, Nepal: a Stochastic Frontier Production Approach
... For such a backdrop, this study was aimed to assess the level of technical efficiency (TE) of certified maize seed production. The total of 164 certified seed producer were interviewed in June, 2016 using simple ...
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Estimating the Materials Balance Condition: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... a stochastic formulation of the materials balance condition which im- poses physical constraints on production ...on stochastic fron- tier analysis of productive ...to production possibilities ...
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Productivity of Nations: a stochastic frontier approach to TFP decomposition
... a frontier was not estimated for each country and therefore it is not a matter of saying that this or that coun- try had “inward” shifts to their ...the frontier (and on the forefront of technical progress) ...
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