Farm Technical Efficiency and Extension

S. O'Neill, Alan Matthews and A Leavy
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Economic Papers from Trinity College Dublin, Economics Department

Abstract: This paper presents a methodology for estimating technical efficiency levels for individual farms using both a fixed effects panel model and a stochastic production frontier approach. It tests whether the estimated technical efficiency levels are associated with measures of contact with the advisory service. The approach is applied to a panel of 307 farms drawn from the Irish National Farm Survey over the period 1984 to 1994. The results show evidence that extension contact has had a positive impact on agricultural output.

JEL-codes: C23 D24 Q16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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