Smallholder technical efficiency controlling for environmental production conditions

Smallholder agricultural production depends heavily on environmental production conditions that are largely exogenously determined. Yet, few data sets collect necessary, detailed information on environmental production conditions. This oversight raises the spectre of likely omitted variables bias be...

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Published in:Journal of development economics 2002-10, Vol.69 (1), p.85-101
Main Authors: Sherlund, Shane M., Barrett, Christopher B., Adesina, Akinwumi A.
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Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Agricultural production
Agricultural productivity
Development economics
Development studies
Economic theory
Environment
Estimation
Production frontiers
Rice
Small-scale farming
Studies
Sub-Saharan Africa
Technical efficiency
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Estimation
Production frontiers
Rice
Small-scale farming
Studies
Sub-Saharan Africa
Technical efficiency
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