Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach
A generalized maximum entropy approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavioral assumption about equal marginal returns of nonland inputs among crops, this method does not require price information, which is usually...
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| author | Zhang, Xiaobo Fan, Shenggen |
| author_browse | Fan, Shenggen Zhang, Xiaobo |
| author_facet | Zhang, Xiaobo Fan, Shenggen |
| author_sort | Zhang, Xiaobo |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | A generalized maximum entropy approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavioral assumption about equal marginal returns of nonland inputs among crops, this method does not require price information, which is usually distorted in a centrally planned economy such as China. A multi-output technology for Chinese agriculture is estimated and input allocations for each province are recovered simultaneously. The estimated multi-output production technology and input allocations imply that China may have greater grain production potentials than previously thought. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1558222024-10-24T12:42:38Z Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach Zhang, Xiaobo Fan, Shenggen china plant production farm inputs A generalized maximum entropy approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavioral assumption about equal marginal returns of nonland inputs among crops, this method does not require price information, which is usually distorted in a centrally planned economy such as China. A multi-output technology for Chinese agriculture is estimated and input allocations for each province are recovered simultaneously. The estimated multi-output production technology and input allocations imply that China may have greater grain production potentials than previously thought. 2001-05 2024-10-24T12:42:37Z 2024-10-24T12:42:37Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155822 en Limited Access Wiley Zhang, Xiaobo; Fan, Shenggen. 2001. Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83(2): 378-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/0002-9092.00163 |
| spellingShingle | china plant production farm inputs Zhang, Xiaobo Fan, Shenggen Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_full | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_fullStr | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_short | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_sort | estimating crop specific production technologies in chinese agriculture a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| topic | china plant production farm inputs |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155822 |
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