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While many studies have compared the technical efficiency of part-time and full-time farms, we add to the existing literature by extending this analysis to scale efficiency. Based on a sample of crop farms in Austria between 2010 and 2017, we find that part-time farms are more scale efficient when they are evaluated with respect to their production...
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... (2010) reports for a sample of Danish crop farms that almost all of these farms have an elasticity of scale above one. LATRUFFE et al. (2012) confirm increasing returns to scale for the majority (54%) of French crop Table 6 depicts the scale elasticity, scale efficiency, and technical efficiency for small (SO < €40,000), medium (€40,000 ≤ SO ≤ €100,000), and large-scale (SO > €100,000) part-time and full-time farmers. On average, all groups exhibit increasing returns to scale, which decrease with size. ...Context 2
... is similar to LAMBERT and BAYDA (2005), who find no significant impact of short-term and long-term debt on scale efficiency among crop farms in North Dakota. Moreover, the negative and statistically significant coefficients of the dummies included for small-and medium-sized farms in our regression further confirm our results in Table 6. ...
