Assessing farm efficiency through quantities or revenues and costs: does it matter?

We examined the effect of using input and output quantities as compared with costs and revenues when estimating farm-level efficiency scores and ranking. We used farm-level data from the 2015 Ethiopia Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) where production inputs and outputs in quantities as well as mone...

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Agricultural economics
Agricultural production
Agriculture
Business Administration
Correspondence
Cost analysis
Costs
Data envelopment analysis
Datasets
Efficiency
Farmers
Farms
Företagsekonomi
Output
Prices
Production factors
Ranking
Revenue
Variables
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