Genetically Modified Crops, an Input Distance Function Approach

Justin G. Gardner, Richard F. Nehring and Carl Nelson ()

No 6800, 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: Our initial findings indicate that GM crops do not contribute to the decline of traditional family farms. We make a significant methodological impact by using the within transformation to remove unobserved individual effects and demonstrate that the within transformation results in ML estimates that are identical to OLS estimates.

Keywords: Production Economics; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.6800

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