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dc.titleA Stochastic Frontier Approach Applied to Farms to Selected Andean Countries
dc.contributor.authorFreitas, Carlos Otávio
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Felipe de Figueiredo
dc.contributor.authorNeves, Mateus C. R.
dc.contributor.orgunitCountry Department Andean Group
dc.coverageColombia
dc.coveragePeru
dc.coverageBolivia
dc.coverageEcuador
dc.coverageLatin America
dc.coverageSouth America
dc.date.available2021-09-28T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2021-09-28T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we estimate a stochastic production function for Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru to investigate whether road infrastructure affects farm technical inefficiency. We use agricultural censuses of Colombia and Bolivia in 2013 and 2014, respectively; national agricultural surveys in 2017 of both Ecuador and Peru; and data on the road network and travel time to the nearest town with 50,000 inhabitants or more. Our main findings are that irrigation increases the value of production and road network decreases farm technical inefficiency, that is, road density (travel time) increases (decreases) farm technical efficiency.
dc.format.extent38
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003660
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/A-Stochastic-Frontier-Approach-Applied-to-Farms-to-Selected-Andean-Countries.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectIrrigation Infrastructure
dc.subjectRoad Infrastructure
dc.subjectAgricultural Production
dc.subjectCrops
dc.subject.jelcodeC31 - Cross-Sectional Models • Spatial Models • Treatment Effect Models • Quantile Regressions • Social Interaction Models
dc.subject.jelcodeQ12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
dc.subject.jelcodeQ14 - Agricultural Finance
dc.subject.keywordsenergy use;farm technical efficiency
dc.typeTechnical Notes
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-TN-02220
idb.operationRG-T3253
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