The damage-control effect of pesticides on total factor productivity growth
构建了一个考虑农药损害控制性质的分析框架，将全要素生产率变化分解为传统增长来源和损害控制效应，并应用于希腊克里特岛橄榄种植农场数据，发现损害控制效应平均贡献了年全要素生产率增长的5%。
This paper develops a framework for analysing the sources of total factor productivity (TFP) changes by explicitly taking into account the damage-control nature of pesticides. In the proposed framework, TFP changes are attributed to the conventional sources of growth (i.e. technical change, scale effect and changes in technical efficiency) and the damage-control effect which consists of three distinct components: the first one is due to changes in the initial pest infestation, the second is a spillover effect arising from neighbours' use of preventive inputs and the third is related to abatement effectiveness. The proposed model is applied to a panel of olive-growing farms in Crete, Greece, during the period 1999–2003. The empirical results indicate that the damage-control effect accounted, on average, for 5 per cent of the annual TFP growth and its main component was the improvements in abatement effectiveness.