Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach
| dc.creator | Zhang, Xiaobo | |
| dc.creator | Fan, Shenggen | |
| dc.date | 1999 | |
| dc.date | 2024-11-21T09:54:45Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-11-21T09:54:45Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T15:01:18Z | |
| dc.description | A Generalized Maximum Entropy (GME) approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavior assumption about equal marginal returns of non-land inputs among crops, this method does not require price information, which is usually distorted in a centrally planned economy such as China. Multi-output technologies for seven regions over more than two decades are estimated, and input allocations for each province are recovered simultaneously. The estimated multi-output production technology and input allocations imply that China may have greater grain production potentials than previously thought. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161300 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/92291 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| dc.rights | Open Access | |
| dc.source | Zhang, Xiaobo; Fan, Shenggen. 1999. Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture;a generalized maximum entropy approach. EPTD Discussion Paper 50. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161300 | |
| dc.subject | technology | |
| dc.subject | crops | |
| dc.title | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach | |
| dc.type | Working Paper |