Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 2 The impact of explanatory variables on outcome and selection equations

From: Factors influencing farmers’ behavior in rice seed selling in the market: a case study in the Tarai region of Nepal^d

Variables	Outcome equation		Selection equation
Variables	Coefficient	Marginal impact	Coefficient	Marginal impact
Age HHH	0.020 (0.034)**	0.019 (0.036)**	-0.002 (0.772)	-0.001 (0.773)
Education HHH	0.027 (0.401)	0.031 (0.342)	0.021 (0.496)	0.006 (0.493)
Family labour	0.0213 (0.254)	0.031 (0.402)	0.027 (0.498)	0.009 (0.503)
Cultivated land	0.07 (0.008)*	0.06 (0.048)**	0.005 (0.220)	0.0017 (0.229)
Off-farm income	0.4 (0.301)	0.2 (0.231)	0.1 (0.746)	0.1 (0.856)
Irrigation	0.0765 (0.072)*	0.042 (0.072)*	0.112 (0.795)	0.036 (0.794)
Livestock	0.004 (0.342)	0.002 (0.221)	0.09 (0.094)*	0.071 (0.048)**
Training	0.074 (0.76)	0.0212 (0.78)	0.182 (0.009)***	0.155 (0.014)**
Share	0.081 (0.815)	0.114 (0.309)	0.220 (0.037)**	0.190 (0.037)**
Roof type	0.271 (0.212)	0.259 (0.217)	0.033 (0.896)	0.010 (0.13)
Seed price	-	0.11 (0.084)*	0.08 (0.062)*	0.071 (0.045)**
Constant	6.433 (0.001)***		2.95 (0.008)***

Wald Chi (10) = 17.66, Log likelihood statistics = 253.335, p 0.004; ρ = 0.690, Likelihood ratio test for ρ = 0 is 0.690, p = 0.027, Σ (Sigma) = 1.098; λ (Lambda) = 0.757; No of observation = 180, censored observations = 63, uncensored observations = 117.
Note: *,** and *** indicate significance at 10%, 5% and 1% levels, respectively; figures in the parentheses are probability values.

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