Artikel

Impact of off-farm activities on technical efficiency: Evidence from maize producers of eastern Ethiopia

This article analyzes the impact of participation in off-farm activities on technical efficiency of maize production in eastern Ethiopia. We combined propensity score matching with a stochastic production frontier model that corrects sample selection bias resulting from unobserved factors that potentially affect both households' decision to participate in off-farm activities and technical efficiency scores that most previous studies do not account for. The probit model results indicate that sex of the household head, literacy of the spouse, agricultural cooperative membership, family size, and access to market information had significant effect on farmers' participation in off-farm activities. In the meantime, it was found that farmers who participated in off-farm activities have a significant technical efficiency gain compared with their non-participant counterparts.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Agricultural and Food Economics ; ISSN: 2193-7532 ; Volume: 6 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-15 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Off-farm
Technical efficiency
Stochastic frontiers
PSM
Selection bias

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Ahmed, Musa Hasen
Melesse, Kumilachew Alamerie
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer
(wo)
Heidelberg
(wann)
2018

DOI
doi:10.1186/s40100-018-0098-0
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Ahmed, Musa Hasen
  • Melesse, Kumilachew Alamerie
  • Springer

Entstanden

  • 2018

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