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Farm Size, Productivity, And Economic Efficiency: Accounting For Differences In Efficiency Of Farms By Size In Honduras

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Gilligan, Daniel O.

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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.

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Paper provided by American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) in its series 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT with number 20918.

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  1. Rios, Ana R. & Shively, Gerald E., 2005. "Farm size and nonparametric efficiency measurements for coffee farms in Vietnam," 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI 19159, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association). [Downloadable!]
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