Quintana-Ashwell, Nicolas E.; Featherstone, Allen M. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2014
This paper investigates productivity growth as measured by the Malmquist productivity index (MPI) among a sample of 331 Kansas farms between the years 1993 and 2011. The MPI index is decomposed to explore the main sources of productivity growth. Technical change (TC) is found to be the main...