TECHNICAL CHANGE, FACTOR BIAS, AND INPUT ADJUSTMENTS: PANEL DATA EVIDENCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES

Charles Zelek and Gerald Shively ()

No 20651, 2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: We estimate a random effects stochastic frontier production function to study the impacts of irrigation on factor use on low-income rice farms in the Philippines. Irrigation precipitates a release of labor and an increase in use of fertilizer and pesticides. We find only weak statistical support for time-variant input elasticities. We study the dynamics of input adjustment by measuring the extent to which observed factor levels converge to optimal levels over time.

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Pages: 22
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20651

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