Genetically Modified Crops, an Input Distance Function Approach

Our initial findings indicate that GM crops do not contribute to the decline of traditional family farms. We make a significant methodological impact by using the within transformation to remove unobserved individual effects and demonstrate that the within transformation results in ML estimates that are identical to OLS estimates.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Gardner, Justin G. ; Nehring, Richard F. ; Nelson, Carl H.
Institutions:	Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA
Subject:	Production Economics \| Genetically Modified Crops \| Distance Function \| Stochastic Frontier Analysis \| Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas Number 6800
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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