Do outsourcing services provided by agricultural cooperatives affect technical efficiency? Insights from tobacco farmers in China
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Abstract In this study, we assess whether household outsourcing production tasks provided by tobacco cooperatives affect technical efficiency, using the survey data from 449 households in Guizhou Province, China 2014. The one‐step estimation of stochastic frontier function is employed. We also use instrumental variable approach to address potential selection biases that may arise unobserved factors are correlated with both service adoption and efficiency. empirical results show farmers’ decision outsource agricultural services has a positive effect on effects efficiency highly heterogeneous at different stages. It interesting note magnitudes similar between labor‐intensive technology‐intensive services.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1467-8292', '1370-4788', '0770-8548']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12435