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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Technical inefficiency"”.
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Assessing technical inefficiency in private, not-for-profit, bachelor's and master's universities in the United States using stochastic frontier estimation
<p>This research explored the technical inefficiency of 813 private, not-for-profit, four-year, bachelor’s and master’s colleges and universities in the U.S. using data from 2006 to 2011. The goal of the study was to describe and explain the level of technical inefficiency in this group of …
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Specification tests and a reformulation of frontier models: An alternative approach to efficiency estimation
Following Farrell's (1957) definitions of firm's technical and allocative efficiencies and the formulation of composite error stochastic frontier model by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt (1977), a substantial amount of research work has been performed measuring firm's technical inefficiency using this …
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Three case studies on the impact of inequality on agricultural efficiency, productivity, and the adoption and intensity of use of climate-smart practices
… different aspects of agricultural production: technical inefficiency, total factor productivity, and the adoption and intensity of use of climate-smart agricultural practices. In the first chapter, we employ a sample of fifteen Latin American rural sectors over a period of seventeen years …
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The Conditional Mode Estimator of Technical Efficiency: Theory and Application to NYC Public Schools
… frontier models and applies it to measure technical inefficiency. It consists of two chapters. The first chapter analyzes the conditional mode estimator's closed-form expressions, convergence, near-minimax optimality when interpreted using Lasso, and selection rules. The second chapter …
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The Conditional Mode Estimator Of Technical Efficiency: Theory And Application To Nyc Public Schools
… frontier models and applies it to measure technical inefficiency. It consists of two chapters. The first chapter analyzes the conditional mode estimator’s closed-form expressions, convergence, near-minimax optimality when interpreted using Lasso, and selection rules. The second chapter …
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Avaliação da eficiência técnica hospitalar do SUS na Paraíba
This study is aimed to evaluate the technical efficiency of SUS in the state of Paraíba, through municipal offices of the Regional Offices of Health, in order to verify what counties are being efficient with utilization of its resources. Data from this study is from 2009, obtained by the Database …
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Impacts of great western development on agricultural production in the west of China
… in the field of economics in areas of measuring technical efficiency and policy effects in an industry with random shocks. I accompany this approach with several economic theories such as maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), measurement of technical inefficiency and estimation of technical change …
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Production, efficiency and managerial selection of workers into peer networks
… worker interactions, managerial selectivity, and technical inefficiency in the production process.</p> <p>The first chapter, entitled "Stochastic Frontier Models with Network Selectivity," develops a model where workers produce output through peer-effect networks, while managerial selectivity of …
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Transaction Cost Economics of Rice Irrigation Systems in Tanzania: Implications for Collective Action
… the institutional quality; CA affect the technical efficiency and allocation of factors of production; and farm household objectives was an important incentive for CA coordination. The study concludes that self-selection effect factors are important criteria for CA member recruitment, and …
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Analysis Of Factors Affecting The Technical Efficiency Of Smallholder Dairy Farmers In Njombe District
… (NDC) with the overall objective of estimating Technical Efficiency (TE) and analyzing factors influencing Technical Inefficiency (TI) of smallholder dairy farmers. Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function in which the parameters for the production frontier and for the inefficiency …
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Addressing health inequalities in South Africa : policy insights and the role of improved efficiency
This study attempts to assess the equity and technical efficiency aspects of the South African health system. It empirically assesses the status qua and trends in equity as it relates to child morbidity and mortality and self-reported illness and utilization of different service providers in …
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Access to irrigation technology and technical efficiency: a comparison of households with and without access to irrigation technology, in ‘Gorogutu district’, Eastern Ethiopia
… to irrigation technology affects the level of technical efficiency in Gorogutu district of Eastern Ethiopia. The analysis is based on primary household-level data collected from 100 randomly selected households in 20010/11 cropping season. To analyze the effect of the technology on technical …
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… rice and other annual crops. Also, substantial technical inefficiency exists in diversified farms. Enhancing education, particularly for women, and further land reforms are the main technical efficiency shifters. Results also show that in a multiple crop environment, households with smallholder …
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Production frontiers and efficiency measures : concepts and applications
… on the one sided-error term used to characterize inefficiency are somewhat restrictive. Moreover, alternative distributional assumptions can lead to substantially different results for the estimated technical efficiencies; making it difficult to provide an economic and practical justification of …
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… rice and other annual crops. Also, substantial technical inefficiency exists in diversified farms. Enhancing education, particularly for women, and further land reforms are the main technical efficiency shifters. Results also show that in a multiple crop environment, households with smallholder …
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Production frontiers and efficiency measures : concepts and applications
… on the one sided-error term used to characterize inefficiency are somewhat restrictive. Moreover, alternative distributional assumptions can lead to substantially different results for the estimated technical efficiencies; making it difficult to provide an economic and practical justification of …
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The effect of drought and rising temperatures on total factor productivity in pasture-based dairy farming in the Eastern Cape
… a stochastic frontier production function with technical inefficiency effects. Rainfall is part of the frontier because it is an essential input into dryland pasture production and temperatures are the main inefficiency effects. Since presented by Battese and Coelli (1995) this approach has …
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Rice Production, Income Diversification and Rural Development in Myanmar
… Sagaing. The stochastic production frontier and technical inefficiency models are applied to capture which farm-specific factors determine efficiency gains. The findings show that rice production in the selected regions can be improved through farm workers with better education, agricultural …
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Rice Production, Income Diversification and Rural Development in Myanmar
… Sagaing. The stochastic production frontier and technical inefficiency models are applied to capture which farm-specific factors determine efficiency gains. The findings show that rice production in the selected regions can be improved through farm workers with better education, agricultural …
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Μελέτη της εταιρικής περιβαλλοντικής λογιστικής και διαχείρισης στην Ελλάδα
Η αυξανόμενη πίεση από τα διαφορετικά ενδιαφερόμενα μέρη για την ανάληψη δράσεων μείωσης του εταιρικού περιβαλλοντικού αποτυπώματος, έστρεψε την εταιρική κουλτούρα και στρατηγική προς την επιδίωξη μιας βιώσιμης ανάπτυξης. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό μελετάται για πρώτη φορά, βάσει Ελληνικών λογιστικών …