2008-2: Agricultural Production Efficiency in Essex and Wiltshire in 1086
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The Domesday Survey of 1086 provides high quality data on the inputs and outputs of most manors in England. A data envelopment analysis (DEA) of Essex estate data, McDonald (1997, 1998), indicated that the average efficiency of the Domesday agricultural economy was high as compared with more modern economies, that some tenants-in-chief displayed significantly more entrepreneurial flair than others, and that geographical location, the size of the estate and the arable/livestock mix all significantly affected estate efficiency. In this paper, analysis of a second Domesday county, Wiltshire, confirms the general results for Essex, but indicates some differences in the factors affecting estate efficiency.
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