期刊
EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS
卷 57, 期 3, 页码 839-860出版社
PHYSICA-VERLAG GMBH & CO
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-018-1469-9
关键词
Random parameters; Stochastic production frontier; Total factor productivity; US agriculture
This study makes two key contributions to the agricultural productivity literature. First, it demonstrates, using US agricultural state-level data, how a random-parameters stochastic frontier model can be used to account for environmental heterogeneity across decision-making units. Second, it uses the estimated parameters of the model to compute and decompose a productivity index that satisfies several key axioms from index theory. Because the decomposition explicitly accounts for both observed and unobserved environmental effects, we are able to obtain a more realistic and flexible assessment of productivity growth. We find substantial differences between productivity results generated using a model with random slope parameters and those generated using a more conventional model with constant slope parameters.
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