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Farmer Efficiency and Technology Use with Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Nazibrola Lordkipanidze  and
Loren W. Tauer
Nazibrola Lordkipanidze
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics at Cornell University
Loren W. Tauer
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics at Cornell University
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Abstract

Productivity of U.S. farmers by age is measured by non-parametric programming using 1992 Census data, decomposed into efficiency and technology Malmquist index components.

Productivity increases slightly with age and then decreases. In most states productivity variations are from technology use rather than efficiency differences.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , April 2000 , pp. 24 - 31
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Copyright © 2000 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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