Human Capital and Eco-Contractual Governance in Small Farms in Poland: Simultaneous Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Ordinal Variables

• Published in: Agriculture (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 46
• Main Authors: Czyżewski, Bazyli, Sapa, Agnieszka, Kułyk, Piotr
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Agricultural policy; Agriculture; Agronomy; Attitudes; CFA; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive ability; Common Agricultural Policy; Education; Efficiency; Factor analysis; Farmers; Farms; Human capital; Multivariate statistical analysis; polychoric correlation; SEM; small farm; Small farms; Sustainable agriculture; Theory of planned behavior; Training; Variables; Poland

Human capital (HC) plays an important role in modern agriculture. The difference in efficiency of assets explains only about a half of the economic performance of agricultural farms, while the other half relies on HC. Although education and training are the main components of HC, it may also be view...