Determinants of agricultural technology adoption under partial population awareness: the case of pigeonpea in Malawi

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 5 Determinants of adoption of improved pigeonpea- Marginal effects

Variables	ATE corrected		Classical adoption
	Marginal effect	SE	Marginal effect	SE
Gender of head (1 = Male, 0 = Otherwise)	−0.282**	0.139	−0.042	0.035
Age of head (yrs)	0.048**	0.023	−0.001	0.004
The square of age	0.000	0	0	0
Education of head (yrs)	0.030	0.016	0.001	0.004
Household size	−0.007	0.113	0.019	0.028
Distance to the village market	0.006	0.03	−0.006	0.006
Distance to the agricultural office	−0.016	0.017	−0.008**	0.004
Membership is a faith group (1 = yes, 0 = no)	−0.276**	0.119	−0.04	0.031
Membership in farmer club (1 = yes, 0 = no)	0.223	0.193	0.081	0.074
Number of years lived in village	−0.007	0.004	0.001	0.001
The value of assets (MK)	0.002	0.042	0.015	0.009
The Land holding size (ha)	−0.033	0.06	0.001	0.02
Access to credit	.410***	0.11	0.146**	0.045
Balaka	0.359	0.251	0.289**	0.106
Thyolo	−0.351	0.189	0.059	0.05
Number of interviews	152		440
Pseudo R2	0.4121		0.3827
LR Chi 2	73.9007		72.314
AIC	156.2294		269.215	0.05