Essays in agricultural economics

This thesis explores topics in Agricultural Economics and is composed of five papers. In the first paper (Chapter 2), a latent-class stochastic frontier model is used to estimate efficiency scores of farmers in Ethiopia. Compared to conventional models, which assume a unique frontier, much lower ine...

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Main Author: Fontes, Francisco Pereira
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.740123