Heterogeneity in frontier analysis: does it matter for benchmarking farms?
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DOI: 10.1007/s11123-021-00608-x
Abstract: Benchmarking farms, in order to advise farmers to cure inefficiency, may be biased if heterogeneity is not accounted for. Technological variability in agriculture indeed happens, but productive efficiency analysis with frontier methods usually assumes homogeneity.… read more here.
Keywords: frontier analysis; analysis matter; benchmarking farms; heterogeneity frontier ... See more keywords