Dutta, Ritwik; Saghaian, Syed - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015
This paper estimates the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) index for the U.S. agricultural sector from the period 1970 to 2004 and decomposes the resulting TFP estimation in the Trans-logarithmic production function for U.S. agriculture for the same period to determine the residual measure that...