Livestock in China: Commodity‐Specific Total Factor Productivity Decomposition Using New Panel Data
使用随机前沿方法估计中国四种主要畜产品的全要素生产率，分解为技术效率和技术进步，发现1980-1990年代创新显著但技术效率提升缓慢，对研究中国农业转型的学者有参考价值。
Studies of total factor productivity (TFP) in livestock production are rare, but when available provide useful information especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the domestic agricultural economy. We estimate TFP for four major livestock products in China employing the stochastic frontier approach, and decompose productivity growth into its technical efficiency (TE) and technical progress components. Efforts are made to adjust and augment the available livestock statistics. The results show that growth in TFP and its components varied between the 1980s and the 1990s as well as over production structures. While there is evidence of considerable technical innovation in China's livestock sector, TE improvement has been relatively slow.