Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 5 Endogenous switching regression first stage estimates

From: Production, consumption, and market supply of edible crickets: insights from East Africa

Variables	Consumpt (1/0)		Cricket market supply in Kgs
	Consumpt (1/0)		Consumers (n = 94)		Non-consumers (n = 45)
	Coef	SE	coef	SE	coef	SE
Age of head (log)	0.344	0.545	− 0.511	0.439	0.575	0.426
Gender of head (1 = male)	0.353	0.325	− 0.117	0.228	− 0.108	0.259
Formal Education	0.024	0.053	0.045	0.042	0.075*	0.045
Household size (log)	0.247	0.316	0.170	0.226	− 0.389	0.276
Annual income (log)	0.070	0.119	0.122	0.090	− 0.002	0.089
Distance to road	− 0.357**	0.143	0.106	0.130	− 0.338***	0.113
Distance to main mkt	− 0.007*	0.004	0.000	0.001	− 0.001	0.004
Access credit	− 0.208	0.355	− 0.329	0.244	− 0.006	0.288
Nutrition perception	0.864***	0.292	− 0.072	0.137	0.179	0.285
Operating mode^a	0.305	0.223	0.375**	0.166	0.059	0.179
Group membership	0.598	0.477
Entomophagy awareness	1.612***	0.323
Cons	− 8.186***	2.771	0.346	1.821	− 2.065	2.303
\(\sigma_{1}\), \(\sigma_{2}\)			0.131	0.431	− 0.604*	0.331
Sigma1, Sigma2			0.158**	0.074	− 0.298**	0.119
Log-likelihood	− 243.21
Wald test: x² (10)	20.34**
LR test of independence x²(1)	3.90**

N = 139: The cricket consumption equation, which represents the determinants of cricket entomophagy/consumption is presented in column 2 while the determinants of market supply for consumers and non-consumers are presented in columns 3 and 4; Estimation is restricted to households who adopted cricket farming after training
^aOperating mode of cricket enterprise: 1 = with partner(s) or as a group; 0 = individually. Level of significance: *10%, **5%, ***1%

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