Rada, Nicholas E.; Buccola, Steven T.; Fuglie, Keith O. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
to examine technical change and efficiency in Brazilian agriculture. Our approach is to estimate a stochastic, multi …-level translog distance function estimates of technical efficiency change to impute state-level technical shifts. We find, leading up … 1996 was 20.2%. Mean state-level technical efficiency was 91.2%, which implies the production frontier expanded 22.2% over …