Off-Farm Employment and Outsourcing Production Effects on the Technical Efficiency of Farm Households’ Grain Production - A Case with the Data from Liaoning Province, China

2014 ◽  
Vol 472 ◽  
pp. 1074-1078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Yan Han ◽  
Di Chen ◽  
Wen Shi ◽  
Jie Lv
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Grain Production ◽  
Step Method ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Farm Scale ◽  
High Level ◽  
On Farm

This paper analyzed the effects of the off-farm employment and the outsourcing production pattern on the technical efficiency of grain production by the two-step method of DEA-Tobit, based on the data of grain production in the major areas of Liaoning province, in the year of 2011. It observed these findings that off-farm employment and income structure change did not have an effect on technical efficiency. Even then this is evidence that age makes a negative effect on farm technical efficiency but it is weakly. Farm scale and specialization have a positive effect on technical efficiency. And both large farm and small farms scale efficiency is on a high level. So a limited impact on farm technical efficiency comes from farm scale as well as a significant positive impact comes from farms production outsourcing.

scholarly journals Performance of Village Unit Co-Operatives in Yogyakarta Special Region: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 067
Author(s):  
Abi Pratiwa Siregar ◽  
Jamhari Jamhari ◽  
Lestari Rahayu Waluyati
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Rice Milling ◽  
Special Region

This study assessed the performance of 32 village unit co-operatives (KUD) in Yogyakarta Special Region during 2011 to 2012. The efficiency level of the KUD were evaluated by employing the data envelopment analysis and multiple regression analysis using panel data to determine the factors affecting efficiency level. Efficiency analysis was decomposed into three dimensions to explore possible sources of inefficiency. According to Marwa and Aziakpono (2016), the first dimension was technical efficiency, which explored the overall effectiveness of transforming the productive inputs into desired outputs compared to the data-driven frontier of best practice. The second dimension was pure technical efficiency, which captured managerial efficiency in the intermediation process. The third dimension was scale efficiency, which explored whether KUD were operating in an optimal scale of operation or not. The results found that the average scores are 64%, 92%, and 68% for technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency respectively in 2011, while in 2012 the average scores are 57%, 94%, and 60% for technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency. Factors having significantly positive impact on several measures of efficiency are incentive and dummy variables (agriculture inputs and hand tractor). Accounts receivable only has positive relationship to pure technical efficiency. On the other hand, rice milling unit and electricity services have negative impact with several measures of efficiency.

scholarly journals The Impact of ICT on Technical Efficiency of Vietnam’s Enterprises

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Nguyen Anh Phong ◽  
Bui Thi Quynh Dao ◽  
Le Thi Thuy Hue ◽  
Nguyen Ngoc Van Khanh ◽  
Nguyen Lam Thanh Ngan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Output Factors ◽  
Equity Ratio ◽  
High Level ◽  
Logit Regression Model ◽  
The Impact

This research evaluates the impact of ICT on the technical efficiency of firms in 63 provinces and cities in Vietnam. We apply to use the DEA method in which we use the variable return to scale to evaluate because firm sizes in 63 provinces are different. At the same time, this method aims to minimize input factors without reducing output factors to measure technical efficiency. This result that is used a binary variable in the logit regression model to identify factors that have an impact on technical efficiency, especially the ICT factor. The research results show that only nearly 10% of the provinces could be technically efficient in business activities. Provinces with sustainable performance and efficiency all depend on influencing factors such as equity ratio, labor productivity, market size, investment, and especially the ICT factor keep increasing over the years and fluctuate around a pretty high level. On the other hand, for the group of unsustainable and ineffective provinces, these variables tend to decrease and fluctuate around at a low level. The research shows that factors in labor productivity, equity ratio, market size, investment, and ICT all have a positive impact on a firm’s performance in 63 provinces and cities of Vietnam. Therefore, firms that want to enhance their efficiency need to have strategies to improve the factors mentioned above. Moreover, the local government needs to improve the ICT index to help to increase their local Enterprises’ efficiency.

scholarly journals New Round of Collective Forest Rights Reform, Forestland Transfer and Household Production Efficiency

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 988
Author(s):  
Jinna Yu ◽  
Yiming Wei ◽  
Wei Fang ◽  
Zhen Liu ◽  
Yujie Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Policy Effects ◽  
Influence Mechanism ◽  
Household Productivity ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the influence mechanism of the new round of Collective Forest Rights Reform (CFRR) on farmers’ production efficiency from the perspective of forestland transfer. Based on the panel data of field investigation in Jiangxi Province, a panel logit model was used to verify whether the new round of CFRR has affected farmers’ forestland circulation behavior. The results showed that the new round of CFRR has played a significant role in promoting forestland circulation. Secondly, the non-parametric DEA method was used to estimate the technical, scale, and comprehensive efficiency of households. DID and panel quantile models were constructed to analyze the impact of forestland inflow policy and forestland outflow policy effects on rural household productivity. The regression results showed that the effect of forestland inflow has had a significantly positive impact on scale and comprehensive efficiency, but it only had a significant effect on technical efficiency in the 0.1 quartile. The effect of forestland outflow was not found to be significant for technical, scale, and comprehensive efficiency, but it was found to be negative for technical efficiency in the 0.75 quartile and negative for scale efficiency in the 0.5 and 0.75 quantiles.

Structural Reforms and Technical Efficiency in the Indian Electricity Distribution Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050004
Author(s):  
Sudhir Mahadeo Bobde ◽  
Makoto Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Bootstrap Method ◽  
State Level ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Dea Efficiency ◽  
Distribution Sector ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the impact of electricity reforms on the technical efficiency of the power distribution sector in India, using state-level panel data for the period 1995–2012. We use a two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA), where DEA efficiency estimates obtained in the first stage are regressed on policy reform variables and some external environmental variables in the second-stage analysis. The bootstrap method is applied to analyze the statistical properties of the nonparametric estimates. First, we find that the partially unbundled structure of the electricity industry, where generation and distribution sectors are integrated but the transmission sector is separate, had significant positive impact on the technical efficiency of the distribution sector. Second, our result indicates that the legislation of electricity reforms had a significantly negative effect on technical efficiency. Third, we find that small-sized electricity distribution sectors/states experienced significant positive gain in technical efficiency when interacted with partial or full unbundling.

scholarly journals Efficiency Evaluation of China’s Public Sports Services: A Three-Stage DEA Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10597
Author(s):  
Pengyu Ren ◽  
Zhaoxia Liu
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Efficiency Evaluation ◽  
Fitness Program ◽  
Dea Model ◽  
Service Efficiency ◽  
The Impact

Improving the level of public sports services enhances citizens’ physical fitness by implementing the national fitness program. A systematic and scientific efficiency evaluation is a prerequisite for optimizing and improving the level of public sports services in China. Based on data of the Chinese Statistic Yearbook, this study adopted the three-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to measure and analyze the efficiency of public sports services in 31 provinces in China in 2016. To analyze the efficiency of public sports services, technical efficiency was decomposed into pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Simultaneously, environmental variables were added to improve accuracy. The results showed that scale efficiency was overestimated, and external technical efficiency was underestimated, before the elimination of external factors and environmental variables. Environmental factors significantly impacted the efficiency of public sports services. Regional gross domestic product (GDP) had a potentially positive impact, while population size partially restricted public sports service efficiency. After eliminating the impact of environmental and random factors, the comprehensive efficiency, pure technical efficiency, and scale efficiency of public sports services all showed improvement in varying degrees. The results provide beneficial insights for the formulation of rational improvement policies for public sports services.

Cinnamon Water Extract: for Lowering High Blood Cholesterol Level of Students and Staff Members of Buraydah College of Pharmacy and Dentistry

Med Phoenix ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-80
Author(s):  
Osama Alnemr ◽  
Abdel Hamied Ahmed ◽  
Mohd. Faiyaz Khan ◽  
Juber Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
Cholesterol Level ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Water Extract ◽  
Blood Cholesterol ◽  
Blood Cholesterol Level ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Cinnamon Extract ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
High Level

Hyperlipidemia (high level of cholesterol in blood) may have a negative effect on the overall health including hypertension and platelet adhesions. The use of herbal medicine, like consumption of cinnamon in treating and preventing abnormality in lipid metabolism has gained an important attention. In this study, immediate effect of cinnamon extract on blood cholesterol was observed and determined. In this study thirty individuals were participated from Buraydah Private College, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Two blood samples were taken from each participant before and after consumption of cinnamon extract in the duration of ten days. Twenty three participants were observed lower blood cholesterol level in compare to before intervention. This study showed that cinnamon have a positive impact on lowering high blood cholesterol.Med Phoenix Vol.2(1) July 2017, 78-80

scholarly journals The Impacts of Farm Financial Structure on Production Efficiency

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Lambert ◽  
Volodymyr V. Bayda
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Financial Structure ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Debt Structure ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Farm Scale ◽  
Short And Long Term

Farm financial structure may affect both short- and long-run input usage, thereby affecting farm efficiency. Any inefficiencies arising from the choice of inputs can be magnified over time as credit constraints continue to affect input usage. In a panel of 54 North Dakota crop farms, efficiency and debt structure were related. Intermediate debt was found to be positively related to farm technical efficiency, and short-term debt was negatively associated with technical efficiency. Use of intermediate-term debt was positively associated with farm-scale efficiency, whereas no significant relationship was found between short- and long-term debt and scale efficiency.

scholarly journals The Impact of Agricultural Service on Grain Production in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 6249
Author(s):  
Fangbin Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Grain Production ◽  
Service Cost ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Impact

The development of agricultural services was the most important change in China’s agricultural production in the past 20 years. Using nationally representative provincial-level panel data, this study shows that agricultural service has a positive impact on technical efficiency at a significance level of 0.06. Based on this study, if the share of agricultural service cost increases by 1%, technical efficiency will increase by 0.35%. In other words, this study provides an empirical explanation of the positive impact of agricultural service on productivity. Due to the heterogeneity of agricultural service, technical efficiency in Eastern China and major grain production regions is higher than that in other regions. Finally, this study confirms the convergence of technical change in China’s grain production.

scholarly journals The Impact of Personality Traits on Perceived Investment Performance: The Moderating Role of Social Interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ninditya Nareswari ◽  
Citra Wanodya Rahmani ◽  
Nugroho Priyo Negoro
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Investment Performance ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

Each investor has an investment plan to reach their investment objectives. Perceived investment performance was affected by a high level of the psychological aspect.  The purpose of this study was to test the effect of the Big Five personality traits on the perception of investment performance. This study also tests the moderating role of social interaction. PLS-SEM was used to test the hypotheses. Used individual stock investors in Indonesia, the findings showed that openness personality had a negative effect on perceived investment performance. Otherwise, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism had a positive impact on perceived investment performance. The results also show that social interaction moderates the relationship between conscientiousness, agreeableness, and perceived investment performance. This result shows that information selection and investment knowledge is important when allocating asset to achieve investment objectives.

scholarly journals Factors associated with the research efficiency of clinical specialties in a research-oriented hospital in China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0250577
Author(s):  
Yin Li ◽  
Jiachang Li ◽  
Baihong Li ◽  
Yue Cao ◽  
Menghan Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Rational Allocation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Research Efficiency

Research-oriented hospitals are responsible for medical services tasks, medical education, and scientific research, playing an important role in medical research and application. The research efficiency of a clinical specialty is influenced by factors such as the characteristics of the specialty, the organizational atmosphere, and the clinical director’s leadership. The present study aimed to describe the research efficiency of clinical specialties, explore the factors influencing it, and clarify the argument of co-evolution theory regarding the collaborative development of medical services, education, and research. Logistic regression and multiple linear regression were adopted to estimate the correlation between influencing factors and scientific research efficiency. Hospital H, which is representative of research hospitals in China, was taken as an example. Taking three efficiency values—comprehensive technical efficiency (CTE), pure technical efficiency (PTE), and scale efficiency (SE)—as dependent variables, the independent variables affecting research productivity were statistically analyzed. This study also examined the scientific research efficiency of 41 specialties between 2013 and 2017, and found that the independent variables affected CTE, PTE, and SE to various degrees. Collaborative innovation in medical education and research must be based on clinical research; how to balance medical and teaching quality, and research efficiency requires further discussion. While young people play a major role on the research team because of their creativity and initiatives, which improve CTE and PTE, high-level researchers with better research and leadership abilities lead to the rational allocation and effective utilization of resources, thus improving SE. In 2013–2017, discipline construction focused on scale expansion, resulting in the decline of SE in China. Therefore, this study suggests further improvements for the efficiency of clinical specialties in research hospitals.

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