摘要：This study investigated how crop-share tenancy affects the efficiency of rice production during the wet season in
Bangladesh. In doing so, we estimated a stochastic frontier cost function to assess cost inefficiency, and test the
hypothesis that share tenancy has a negative effect on cost efficiency of rice production. Through applying the
“maximum likelihood-based methodology, the endogeneity problem in stochastic frontier model,” was properly
handled, which is the substantial contribution of the present study. This study also contributes not only toward
determining the inefficiency of share tenancy contracts during the wet season for rice, also to the development of
controversial debates on the efficiency of share tenancy in Bangladesh. The analysis implied that if the land tenure
system is other than crop-share tenancy, cost efficiency of wet season rice production could be improved by 19
percent. This surprising result suggests that a policy to induce a tenurial system other than crop-share tenancy in
changing tenancy practices would produce comparative advantage of rice production during the wet season in
Bangladesh.
