Impacts of Rural Labor Resource Change on the Technical Efficiency of Crop Production in China

This paper probes effects of the evolvement of labor resources on technical efficiency in crop production in rural China. Based on twelve years of data on crop production of 30 provinces in China, a stochastic frontier production function model is used to measure crop production efficiency in three...

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Main Authors: Ning Yin, Yapeng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-03-01
Series:Agriculture
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/7/3/26