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EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 231-250Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbq015
Keywords
dairy farms; intensification; latent class model; stochastic frontier; technical efficiency; productivity; Q12; C23
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- Spanish Ministry of Science [SEJ2007-66979]
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In this article, we use a stochastic frontier latent class model to estimate the technology of dairy farms according to their degree of intensification. The results are compared with a model which assumes that the technology is common to all farms. The empirical analysis uses data on a balanced panel of 130 Spanish dairy farms over the period 1999-2006. We find that the intensive technology is more productive than the extensive one and that intensive farms are more technically efficient than extensive farms.
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