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Productivity in Chinese Provincial Agriculture
Author(s) -
Lambert David K.,
Parker Elliott
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1998.tb01279.x
Subject(s) - productivity , industrialisation , frontier , agricultural economics , agricultural productivity , panel data , agriculture , economics , technical change , production (economics) , production–possibility frontier , china , flood myth , chinese agriculture , geography , economic growth , econometrics , archaeology , market economy , macroeconomics
Technical change, technical efficiency and multifactor productivity indices are reported for a multiple‐output, multiple‐input production technology using Chinese provincial data for the 1979‐95 period. Results show significant variation in productivity change from year to year and province to province. Using panel methods, we regress the three production indices on several factors important in explaining productivity changes. Decollectivisation in the early 1980s accounts for a significant expansion of the frontier, while rural industrialisation decreased agricultural productivity. Productivity is also sensitive to relative grain prices, to natural disasters such as flood and drought, and proximity of the provinces to coastal areas.