Agricultural Productivity in Volgograd Province

Brock, Gregory J.

doi:10.1057/ces.1994.3

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“…In addition, labor elasticities in this range were reported in many of the efficiency studies that aggregated output. Among others, Hofler and Payne (1995) found similar elasticities for Yugoslavia, 1961Yugoslavia, -1979Brock (1994) -for Russia, 1991Carter and Zhang (1994) -for nine centrally planned economies, 1965-1989. The other input data (organic fertilizer, chemicals, and fuel) were not available in the previous grain efficiency studies.…”

Section: Production Frontier Estimatesmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…Then the means of efficiency scores were compared between two groups of farms to test whether factors of interest affect inefficiency (separately for the six zones). The insignificant effect of state order found in the results was explained as in Brock (1994). A positive, though insignificant, effect of transport access, as measured by whether or not a farm is located near mainline transport links, was attributed to poor quality of rural transport system.…”

Section: Studies Comparing Private and Collectivist Agriculturementioning

confidence: 83%

“…The lack of change may reflect the deliberate overreporting of fuel use on farm accounts to ensure enough allotment from the state in the future. Although Brock (1994) did not find deliberate over-reporting in the farm annual accounts, it is not clear whether the author refers to both input utilization and output or to the output only. Alternatively, the unchanged fuel use may reflect the adequate provision of inputs due to the preferred status of grain production.…”

Section: Partial Productivity Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Recent studies exist that use farm-level data to study production efficiency. Brock (1994Brock ( , 1997 analyzed farm-level data to smdy production efficiency using a "whole farm" production fimction. Only a few studies examine farm level technical efficiency of a single crop in the formerly planned economies (e.g., Popov, 1990, 1992;Johnson et al, 1994;Bayarsaihan, Battese, and CoeUi, 1998).…”

Section: Efficiency Of Agricuitural Production In Formerly Planned Ecmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The more efficient farms had more processing and subsidiary workers, higher assets value per hectare of agriculmral land, and a lower portion of revenue from livestock. Brock (1994) applied a Cobb-Douglas "whole farm" production function in the analysis of 345 collective and state farms in Volgograd Region, Russia, 1991. An inefficiency model with a half-normal inefficiency term (Aigner, Lovell, and Schmidt, 1977) was tested and rejected in favor of the traditional production function.…”

Section: Studies Comparing Private and Collectivist Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Production Frontier Estimatesmentioning

confidence: 80%

Section: Studies Comparing Private and Collectivist Agriculturementioning

confidence: 83%

Section: Partial Productivity Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Efficiency Of Agricuitural Production In Formerly Planned Ecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Studies Comparing Private and Collectivist Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

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