指導教授：張靜貞臺灣大學：農業經濟學研究所艾達納2014-11-292018-06-292014-11-292018-06-292014http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/263585Recently the economic development research have focus not only on the country’s economic performance but also on how economic growth affect the quality of life (QOL), giving more support to economic policies that effectively improve life standards to the society. With this in mind the Colombian government held a National Quality of Life and Efficiency Survey (ENCVE) of more than 10.000 Colombian households covering all the territory collecting information for the QOL and the performance in their occupation. This study tries to use the survey as an empirical evidence that people with good QOL are at the same time more efficient at work. In this study, the technical efficiency (TE) of 712 coffee, 623 corn and 508 cassava farms are estimated using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), followed by an Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and the logistic regression analyses to establish a relationship between the calculated efficiency and the reported QOL in the ENCVE. For the coffee farmers, the results show a positive relationship between TE and QOL and the relationship seems to be reinforced in a virtuous cycle. For the corn case, there is no sufficient proof for the cycle. Finally for the cassava farmers, there is no evidence of any relationship between the two. The results also show that the perception of your peers could improve the QOL and the permanent crops could have an advantage providing good efficiency and good QOL simultaneously for the farmers. This implies that in order to enhance the efficiency and QOL in the rural area at the same time, the government subsides could be focused on increasing the equality, fairness and standard of living especially in the permanent crops.Acknowledgments i Abstract ii Table of contents iii List of figures vi List of Figures viii Chapter 1: Introduction and literature review 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 The concepts and their relationship 3 1.3 Literature review 4 Chapter 2: The three crops and their importance for the Colombian agriculture 7 2.1 brief introduction to the Colombian agricultural sector (1970-2011) 7 2.2 Geographical production location 10 2.2.1 Coffee 10 2.2.2 Corn 13 2.2.3 Cassava 16 2.3 International trade 18 Chapter 3: The data 23 3.1 The data 23 3.2 Population distribution 23 3.3 Farmer’s education 26 3.4 Area distribution 27 3.5 The quality of life In the ENCV. 30 Chapter 4: Methodology 33 4.1 Methodology 33 Chapter 5: Results 37 5.1. The efficiency results. 37 5.1.1 Coffee 37 5.1.2 Corn 39 5.1.3 Cassava 40 5.2 The relation of the efficiency with the QOL 42 5.2.1 Coffee 42 5.2.2 Corn 44 5.2.3 Cassava 46 5.3 The relationship between QOL and efficiency 47 5.3.1 Coffee 47 5.3.2 Corn 48 5.3.3 cassava 50 5.4 Discussion 51 Chapter 6: Conclusions 53 References 57 Appendix A 611888717 bytesapplication/pdf論文公開時間：2014/07/29論文使用權限：同意有償授權(權利金給回饋學校)技術效率生活質量幸福經濟增長[SDGs]SDG8[SDGs]SDG10thesishttp://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw/bitstream/246246/263585/1/ntu-103-R01627036-1.pdf