Farmland Scale and Technical Efficiency in Chinese Agriculture: A Land Transfer Cost Perspective

This study investigates the relationship between farmland scale and technical efficiency. Using a household-level dataset from 10 provinces in China, we employed a flexible Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model to simultaneously estimate technical efficiency and evaluate its relationship with farmland scale. The results show that the average technical efficiency scores for the full sample, wheat, rice, and maize are 0.677, 0.708, 0.733, and 0.669, respectively, indicating substantial potentia