Balcombe, Kelvin; Fraser, Iain; Latruffe, Laure; … - In: Applied Economics 40 (2008) 15, pp. 1919-1925
In this article we examine sources of technical efficiency for rice farming in Bangladesh. The motivation for the analysis is the need to close the rice yield gap to enable food security. We employ the DEA double bootstrap of Simar and Wilson (2007) to estimate and explain technical efficiency....