@article{Huffman:18210,
      recid = {18210},
      author = {Huffman, Wallace E. and Chen, Zhuo and Rozelle, Scott},
      title = {Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from  Four Regions in China},
      address = {2006},
      number = {1043-2016-85352},
      series = {ISU Economics Working Paper #06022},
      pages = {25},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production  functions to data for Chinese farms grouped into each of  four regions-North, Northeast, East, and Southwest-over  1995-1999. These frontier production functions are shown to  have statistically different structures, and the marginal  product information shows overuse of chemical inputs in the  East and capital services in the North. Labor also has a  low marginal product. Next, we use the data and the  production parameters to create technical efficiency scores  for each of the farms and then standardize them.  Standardized technical efficiency is shown to have the same  structure across regions and to be related to the age of  the farmer, land fragmentation, and the village migration  rate, controlling for year dummies and village or regional  fixed effects.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/18210},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.18210},
}