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Effects of the Pluriativity of Brazilian Rural Establishments on Technical Efficiency

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  • Silva, J.D.S.
  • Freitas, C.O.D.
  • Costa, L.V.

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This paper examines Brazilian rural establishments that perform agricultural and non-agricultural activities. The combination of these activities, in the same agricultural unit, characterizes and defines pluriactivity. In this way, this research aims to verify the effect of pluriactivity on the efficiency of rural establishments, in technical terms. In order to reach the proposed goal, the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) was used to pair the sample in two groups, treated (pluriative) and untreated (non-pluriative). After the identification of these groups, a Probit model was estimated, followed by estimation of the production stochastic frontier to obtain the technical efficiency scores. The data used refer to a special tabulation based on the micro-data of the 2006 Census of Agriculture. Among the results found, establishments that carry out exclusively agricultural activities make better use of the available resources compared to the pluriactive ones, being technically more efficient. Acknowledgement :

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  • Silva, J.D.S. & Freitas, C.O.D. & Costa, L.V., 2018. "Effects of the Pluriativity of Brazilian Rural Establishments on Technical Efficiency," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 276969, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaae18:276969
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.276969
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