Essays about: "Astewale Bimr Melaku"

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  1. 1. Whole farm technical efficiency : the case of Ethiopian smallholders: time-variant stochastic frontier model

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Astewale Bimr Melaku; [2018]
    Keywords : smallholder farmers; technical efficiency; time-variant; Ethiopia;

    Abstract : This study uses a time-varying random-effects stochastic frontier model to estimate level of whole farm technical efficiency using 3,465 observations of sample smallholder farmers located in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nation and Nationalities (SNNP) regions of Ethiopia. A baseline econometric analysis has been done by employing Corrected Ordinary Least Square (COLS) and cross-section data models prior to the panel data model analysis as a robustness check. READ MORE