Genetically Modified Crops, an Input Distance Function Approach

Abstract

Our initial findings indicate that GM crops do not contribute to the decline of traditional family farms. We make a significant methodological impact by using the within transformation to remove unobserved individual effects and demonstrate that the within transformation results in ML estimates that are identical to OLS estimates.Production Economics, Genetically Modified Crops, Distance Function, Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Production Economics, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,