FARM SIZE, PRODUCTIVITY, AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY: ACCOUNTING FOR DIFFERENCES IN EFFICIENCY OF FARMS BY SIZE IN HONDURAS

Daniel Gilligan ()

No 20918, 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The farm size-productivity relationship is tested using nonparametric efficiency measures based on distance functions. This approach to efficiency measurement is less restrictive and more informative than alternative methods. For a group of Honduran farms, diminishing returns to scale render smaller farms more economically efficient overall, despite the relative technical efficiency of larger farms.

Keywords: Industrial Organization; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20918

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