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Provedor de dados: 	Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Political Violence and Farm Household Efficiency in Colombia	
Autores: 	Gonzalez,   Maria A.; Lopez,   Rigoberto A.	
Data: 	2005-05-16	
Ano: 	2005	
Palavras-chave: 	Distance function; Farm efficiency; Colombia; Violencia; Consumer/Household Economics; Q74; O13; O54; D24.	
Resumo: 	This paper estimates farm household levels of technical efficiency and their determinants in Colombia, with particular reference to political violence (i.e., guerilla fronts, assassinations, kidnappings, and displaced population). An input-oriented stochastic frontier is estimated simultaneously with a technical inefficiency model that incorporates violence at the local level, using survey data from 822 farm households. The findings show that household productivity is lower in areas of high political violence, particularly with high incidence of guerrilla fronts and kidnappings. Should political violence be eliminated, the average Farrell's technical efficiency index of farm households in the sample would increase by an average of 6.4%, favoring households in small farms the most.	
Tipo: 	Conference Paper or Presentation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	16282

http://purl.umn.edu/19528	
Editor: 	AgEcon Search	
Relação: 	American Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI

Selected Paper 134345	
Formato: 	37

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