Economic efficiency in farm households: Trends, explanatory factors, and estimation methods

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 587-599

  Olson, Kent ^a   Vu, Linh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Efficiency; Farms

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FAMILY FARM; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; RETURNS TO SCALE; STAKEHOLDER; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

TOBACCO ETCH VIRUS;

EID: 69549091892     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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