We explore the relationship between precision agriculture (PA) technology adoption and technical efficiency using 2016 USDA Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). Efficiency gains from PA are likely cumulative, that is, true impact of farming depends on integration complementary tools. To examine benefits different bundles, we perform a two-step analysis. First, use cluster analysis to...

Theoretically, integration of vertically organized services is seen as an important approach to improving the efficiency of health service delivery. However, there is a dearth of evidence on the effect of integration on the technical efficiency of health service delivery. Furthermore, where technical efficiency has been assessed, there have been few attempts to incorporate quality measures with...

This paper surveys four distinct approaches to frontier estimation of multioutput (and simultaneously multi-input) technologies, when nothing but noisy quantity data are available. Parametrized distributions for inefficiency and noise are necessary for identification of inefficiency, when only cross-sectional data are available. In other respects suitable techniques may differ widely, as is sho...