TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to estimate technical efficiency obtained from both data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier approaches using household survey data for rice farming households in Vietnam.Design/methodology/approach– A bootstrap method is used to provide statistical precision of the DEA estimator. Technical efficiency is modeled as a function of household and production factors.Findings– The results from the deterministic, semi‐parametric and parametric approaches indicate that among other things, technical efficiency is significantly influenced by primary education and regional factors. In addition, scale efficiency analysis shows that many farms in Vietnam are operating with less than optimal scale of operation.Originality/value– The study is among the first that employ a bootstrap method and compare estimates from both Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier approaches.
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
SN  - 1446-8956
DO  - 10.1108/14468951211213868
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14468951211213868
AU  - Hoang Linh Vu
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Efficiency of rice farming households in Vietnam
T2  - International Journal of Development Issues
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 60
EP  - 73
Y2  - 2024/09/23
ER  -