Do outsourcing services provided by agricultural cooperatives affect technical efficiency? Insights from tobacco farmers in China

IF 2.5 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI:10.1111/apce.12435

Junying Lin, Songqing Jin, Hongdong Guo

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Abstract

In this study, we assess whether household outsourcing production tasks provided by tobacco cooperatives affect household technical efficiency, using the survey data from 449 households in Guizhou Province, China in 2014. The one-step estimation of the stochastic frontier production function is employed. We also use the instrumental variable approach to address the potential selection biases that may arise from unobserved factors that are correlated with both outsourcing service adoption and technical efficiency. The empirical results show that the farmers’ decision to outsource agricultural services provided by cooperatives has a positive effect on technical efficiency. The effects of outsourcing on technical efficiency are highly heterogeneous at different production stages. It is also interesting to note that the magnitudes of outsourcing effects on technical efficiency are similar between labor-intensive services and technology-intensive services.

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农业合作社提供的外包服务是否影响技术效率？来自中国烟农的见解

在本研究中，我们使用2014年中国贵州省449户家庭的调查数据，评估了烟草合作社提供的家庭外包生产任务是否影响家庭技术效率。采用随机前沿生产函数的一步估计。我们还使用工具变量法来解决潜在的选择偏差，这些偏差可能由与外包服务采用和技术效率相关的未观察到的因素引起。实证结果表明，农民决定将合作社提供的农业服务外包对技术效率有积极影响。在不同的生产阶段，外包对技术效率的影响是高度异质的。值得注意的是，劳动密集型服务和技术密集型服务外包对技术效率的影响程度相似。

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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics ECONOMICS-

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