| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26331 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26331 |
| Are Small Farms Really more Productive than Large Farms? | |
| Fernando M. Aragon Sanchez; Diego Restuccia; Juan Pablo Rud | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-09-30 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn negative when using yields. We illustrate the empirical relevance of this issue with microdata from Uganda and show similar findings for Peru, Tanzania, and Bangladesh. In addition, we show that the dispersion in both measures of productivity across farms of similar size is so large that it renders farm size an ineffective indicator for policy targeting. Our findings stress the need to revisit the empirical evidence on the farm size-productivity relationship and its policy implications. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Macroeconomics ; Macroeconomic Models ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity ; Country Studies ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26331 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584003 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Fernando M. Aragon Sanchez,Diego Restuccia,Juan Pablo Rud. Are Small Farms Really more Productive than Large Farms?. 2019. |
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| w26331.pdf（887KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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