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Subsidies and Technical Efficiency in Agriculture: Evidence from European Dairy Farms by Latruffe, Laure, Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., Carpentier, Alain, Desjeux, Yann, Moreira, Víctor H.

“…The objective of this article is to examine the association between agricultural subsidies and dairy farm technical efficiency in the European Union, and in so…”
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Irrigation infrastructure and farm productivity in the Philippines: A stochastic Meta-Frontier analysis by Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., Higgins, Daniel, Arslan, Aslihan

“…•Improving irrigation infrastructure can have significant impact on output and yields while being pro-poor.•Improved small scale irrigation systems can shift…”
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Economic effects of climate change on agricultural production and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by Lachaud, Michée A., Bravo‐Ureta, Boris E., Ludena, Carlos E.

“…Climate projections indicate that temperatures in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will rise by between 1.6 °C and 4 °C by the end of the century while…”
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Computation of time probability distributions for the occurrence of uncertain future events by Acuña-Ureta, David E., Orchard, Marcos E., Wheeler, Patrick

“…•Novel notions of uncertain events and uncertain hazard zones in failure prognostics.•Formal characterization of epistemic uncertainty in the definition of…”
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Plot‐level technical efficiency accounting for farm‐level effects: Evidence from Chilean wine grape producers by Bravo‐Ureta, Boris E., Moreira, Víctor H., Troncoso, Javier L., Wall, Alan

“…This paper applies alternative panel data models to a cross‐sectional dataset that contains observations at the plot level for a sample of wine‐grape farms in…”
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A new look at the decomposition of agricultural productivity growth incorporating weather effects by Njuki, Eric, Bravo-Ureta, Boris E, O'Donnell, Christopher J

“…Random fluctuations in temperature and precipitation have substantial impacts on agricultural output. However, the contribution of these changing…”
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Gender and Productivity Differentials in Smallholder Groundnut Farming in Malawi: Accounting for Technology Differences by Owusu, Eric S., Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.

“…The gender gap in agricultural productivity has been of ongoing interest to development policy and we revisit the subject in the context of groundnut, an…”
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Near-instantaneous battery End-of-Discharge prognosis via uncertain event likelihood functions by Acuña-Ureta, David E., Orchard, Marcos E.

“…The prediction of the time of occurrence of future events has been studied for decades in various scientific disciplines. Such events have historically been…”
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Technology and Technical Efficiency Change: Evidence from a Difference in Differences Selectivity Corrected Stochastic Production Frontier Model by Bravo‐Ureta, Boris E., González‐Flores, Mario, Greene, William, Solís, Daniel

“…This study presents a new approach to evaluate the economic impact of development projects for cases where baseline and endline data for comparable treated and…”
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Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: an analysis of climatic effects, catch‐up and convergence by Lachaud, Michée A., Bravo‐Ureta, Boris E.

“…This paper investigates whether climatic adjusted total factor productivity (CATFP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is converging, converging to…”
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Technical efficiency in farming: a meta-regression analysis by Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., Solís, Daniel, López, Victor H. Moreira, Maripani, José F., Thiam, Abdourahmane, Rivas, Teodoro

“…A meta-regression analysis including 167 farm level technical efficiency (TE) studies of developing and developed countries was undertaken. The econometric…”
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Technical Efficiency among Peasant Farmers Participating in Natural Resource Management Programmes in Central America by Solís, Daniel, Bravo-Ureta, Boris E, Quiroga, Ricardo E

“…This study examines the extent to which technical efficiency (TE) is related to activities promoted by two natural resource management programmes recently…”
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Farm size and productivity in Nicaragua: Parametric and nonparametric analyses for panel data by Almeida, Alexandre Nunes, Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.

“…This paper examines the inverse relationship hypothesis (IR-H) between farm size and agricultural productivity in Nicaragua using parametric and nonparametric…”
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Dairy productivity and climatic conditions: econometric evidence from South-eastern United States by Mukherjee, Deep, Bravo‐Ureta, Boris E., De Vries, Albert

“…Climate change and food security have become critical issues in the agricultural policy agenda. Although global warming is expected to increase both the…”
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Productivity effects and natural resource management: econometric evidence from POSAF‐II in Nicaragua by De los Santos‐Montero, Luis A., Bravo‐Ureta, Boris E.

“…Understanding how natural resource management (NRM) technologies impact agricultural productivity is essential in order to ensure that policies designed to…”
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Soil conservation and technical efficiency among hillside farmers in Central America: a switching regression model by Solís, Daniel, Bravo-Ureta, Boris E, Quiroga, Ricardo E

“…The main objective of this paper is to evaluate and analyse technical efficiency (TE) levels for hillside farmers under different levels of adoption of soil…”
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Economic Impact of Marena's Investments on Sustainable Agricultural Systems in Honduras by Bravo-Ureta, Boris E, Almeida, Alexandre Nunes, Solís, Daniel, Inestroza, Aarón

“…This study examines the economic impact of sustainable agricultural production systems in Central America. In particular, we investigate the impact of…”
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Assessing farm performance by size in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda by Julien, Jacques C., Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., Rada, Nicholas E.

“…•We test the relationship between farm size and agricultural TFP in East Africa.•TFP is higher for smaller farms than larger ones in Malawi, Tanzania, and…”
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Farmers’ perception of climate change in mediterranean Chile by Roco, Lisandro, Engler, Alejandra, Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., Jara-Rojas, Roberto

“…Meteorologists predict that climate change will have an increasing impact on ecosystems and agricultural production; however, many farmers do not have a clear…”
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The Economic Costs of Environmental Regulation in U.S. Dairy Farming: A Directional Distance Function Approach by Njuki, Eric, Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.

“…Analyses of the costs of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from dairy production, which could be used to assess the effectiveness of alternative policy…”
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