Stanislav Kolenikov, Gustavo Ángeles
The last several years have seen a growth in the number of publications in economics that use principal component analysis (PCA) in the area of welfare studies. This paper explores the ways discrete data can be incorporated into PCA. The effects of discreteness of the observed variables on the PCA a...
Tim Coelli, Sanzidur Rahman, Colin Thirtle
Applying programming techniques to detailed data for 406 rice farms in 21 villages, for 1997, produces inefficiency measures, which differ substantially from the results of simple yield and unit cost measures. For the Boro (dry) season, mean technical efficiency was 69.4 per cent, allocative efficie...
Abdul Wadud, Ben White
This study compares estimates of technical efficiency obtained from the stochastic frontier approach and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach using farm-level survey data for rice farmers in Bangladesh. Technical inefficiency effects are modelled as a function of farm-specific socioeconomic ...
A.V. Manjunatha, Asif Reza Anik, Stijn Speelman, E.A. Nuppenau
Sanzidur Rahman
M. Niaz Asadullah, Sanzidur Rahman
This article reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and efficiency....
Vishal Dagar, Muhammad Kamran Khan, Rafael Alvarado, Muhammad Usman et al.
Syed Akther, Hirofumi Fukuyama, William Weber
Garth Holloway, Bhavani Shankar, Sanzidur Rahmanb
Abstract Increasingly, spatial econometric methods are becoming part of the standard toolkit of applied researchers in agricultural, environmental and development economics. Nonetheless, applications in discrete‐choice settings remain few and despite its appeal, applications of the Bayesian paradigm...
Sanzidur Rahman
Sayem Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Mary MacLennan, Farzana Dorin et al.
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to estimate the technical efficiency of health systems in Asia. SETTINGS: The study was conducted in Asian countries. METHODS: We applied an output-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to estimate the technical efficiency of the health systems in Asian countri...
Sanzidur Rahman, Ruhul Salim
Abstract This study applies the Färe–Primont index to calculate total factor productivity (TFP) indices for agriculture in 17 regions of Bangladesh covering a 61‐year period (1948–2008). It decomposes the TFP index into six finer components (technical change, technical‐, scale‐ and mix‐efficiency ch...
Zahirul Hoque, Trevor Hopper
Abstract This paper reports an empirical investigation, based on triangulation methods, of how a set of environmental facts affect budgeting characteristics in the nationalised jute mills of Bangladesh. The key factors were derived from intensive fieldwork. Five external factors (political climate, ...
Ahmad Danu Prasetyo, Ubaidillah Zuhdi
In this paper, we investigate the efficiency level of government expenditure per capita in health and education sectors and transfers and subsidies in 81 countries towards the human development in the respective countries by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach during 2006-2010. We found t...
Sanzidur Rahman
Abstract This article examines the contribution of women’s labour input to productivity and efficiency in crop farming using a large survey dataset of 1,839 households from 16 villages in two agro‐ecological regions of Bangladesh. Results reveal that female labour accounts for a substantial 28% of t...