Just add milk: a productivity analysis of the revolutionary changes in nineteenth century Danish dairying

Paul Sharp
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Markus Lampe

IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola

Abstract: The late nineteenth century Danish agricultural revolution saw the modernization and growth of the dairy industry. Denmark rapidly caught up with the leading economies, and Danish dairying led the world in terms of productivity. Uniquely in a world perspective, high quality micro-level data exist documenting this episode. These allow the use of the tool of modern agricultural economists, stochastic frontier analysis, to estimate production functions for milk and thus find the determinants of these productivity and efficiency advances. We identify the contribution of modernization through specific new technologies and practices.

Keywords: Denmark; Dairies; Development; Stochastic; Frontier; Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L2 N5 O3 Q1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05-01
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Journal Article: Just add milk: a productivity analysis of the revolutionary changes in nineteenth-century Danish dairying (2015)
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