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Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh:The role of education revisited

M Asadullah and Sanzidur Rahman ()

No 2005-10, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and efficiency. A full set of proxies for farm education stock variables are incorporated to investigate the ‘internal’ as well as ‘external’ returns to education. The external effect is investigated in the context of rural neighbourhoods. Our analysis reveals that in addition to raising rice productivity and boosting potential output, household education significantly reduces production inefficiencies. However, we are unable to find any evidence of externality benefit of schooling - neighbour’s education does not matter in farm production. We discuss the implication of these findings for rural education programs in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Agriculture; returns to education; stochastic production frontier; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 N5 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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