Abstract
The agrarian system of China in the post-collective period is characterized by peasant subsistence and small-scale mixed family farms. Agricultural modernization requires rapid and sustained improvements in levels of output and productivity. Farm-level data of 7927 households sampled from two representative Chinese provinces allow us to formulate and estimate a stochastic frontier production function model that explains a considerable proportion of interfarm efficiency differences and quantifies the efficiency effects of farm size, access to credit, nutrition intake, education attainment, and farming experience.J. Comp. Econom., September 2000, 28(3), pp. 545–564. London Guildhall University, and Asian Development Bank and London School of Economics.
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