Tchale, Hardwick; Sauer, Johannes - In: Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales 82-83 (2007), pp. 33-56
We measure the level and determinants of technical efficiency of maize based smallholder farmers using a bootstrapped translog stochastic frontier that is a posteriori checked for functional consistency. The results show that higher levels of technical efficiency are obtained when farmers use...