Productive efficiency of beef cattle production in Botswana: a latent class stochastic meta-frontier analysis

1. Introduction

With the goal of improving the productive efficiency of beef cattle production in developing countries and advancing the way efficiency can be modeled in empirical research, we present a latent class (finite mixture) stochastic meta-frontier analysis of beef cattle production in Botswana. Our objective is to examine technological heterogeneity and technical efficiency…