@article{Nehring:196841,
      recid = {196841},
      author = {Nehring, Richard and hallahan, Charlie},
      title = {The Impacts of Off-Farm Income on Farm Efficiency, Scale,  and Profitability Rice Farms},
      address = {2015-01-15},
      number = {1375-2016-109536},
      pages = {22},
      month = {Jan},
      year = {2015},
      note = {This study is based on ARMS phase II and COP data supplied  by ERS},
      abstract = {This paper estimates technical efficiency  on rice farms,  following a translog stochastic production frontier (SPF)  approach and compares the relative performance of farm  operator households with and without off-farm wages and  salaries. We use 2000, 2006 and 2013 USDA data for rice  producing states-identifying different performance  measures. Previous studies suggest that off-farm work  influences economic performance—by “improving” managerial  performance.   We find that off-farm income generally  boosts scale and technical efficiency on smaller, mid-size  and larger operations, and is also consistent with higher  farm and household returns. We also find that the number of  hours worked off-farm by the operator contributes to a  higher technical efficiency on larger typologies.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/196841},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.196841},
}