Department of Economics

Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Four Regions in China

Chen, Zhuo; Huffman, Wallace E.; Rozelle, Scott

WP #06022, May 2006

In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data for Chinese farms grouped into each of four regions

JEL Classification: C23, D24, N55, O13

Keywords: household farm, labor migration, land fragmentation, stochastic production frontier, technical efficiency

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