Farmers’ health status, agricultural efficiency, and poverty in rural Ethiopia: A stochastic production frontier approach

The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect model...

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Main Author: Ulimwengu, John M.
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2009
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161863

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