Migrant Labor and Farm Technical Efficiency in Lesotho

By M. T. Mochebelele, A. Winter-Nelson. 2000

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. H. Tchale
2. F. Wouterse
3. E. Chirwa
4. Megan Sheahan
5. Christopher B. Barrett
6. Stefania Lovo

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. H. Tchale
2. F. Wouterse
3. E. Chirwa
4. Shelagh A. Heffernan
5. X. Fu

In Soil Science

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2. F. Wouterse
3. E. Chirwa

Citations in the corpus

• Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China (2015, unknown): “Using the stochastic production frontier (SPF) method, Mochebelele and Winter-Nelson (2000) and Nonthakot and Villano (2008) found that households with migrants have significantly higher technical efficiency in Lesotho and northern Thailand, respectively, while Chang and Wen (2011) showed negative…”
• The efficiency of smallholder agriculture in Malawi (2009, result): “…in some 3 In the analysis, we estimated the technical and allocative efficiency levels, and economic efficiency was taken as a residual since EE = TE * AE. cases these relationships are not supported by other empirical studies (e.g. Mochobelele & Winter-Nelson, 2000, in the case of Lesotho).”
• Migration and technical efficiency in cereal production: evidence from Burkina Faso: F. Wouterse / Agricultural Economics xx (2010) 1-11 (2010, background): “In this case, the " high input " farmer generates greater yields but does not come as close to the maximum possible yield from the inputs applied (Mochebelele and Winter-Nelson 2000).”
• Sources of Technical Efficiency among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Southern Malawi (2007, background): “(1998) find the mean technical efficiency of maize producers in Ethiopia to be 79 percent, Wier (1999) and Wier and Knight (2000) find mean efficiency levels of about 55 percent among cereal crop producers while Mochebelele and Winter-Nelson (2000) find average technical efficiencies of between 64 p”