The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 4 Full information maximum likelihood estimates of the switching regression model

Variables	Selection		Nonmembers		Members
Variables	Coef	Std. Err.	Coef	Std. Err.	Coef	Std. Err.
Constant	−0.781	−0.781	9.495^a	0.229	8.904^a	0.247
Age	0.018	0.018	−0.004	0.006	0.005	0.010
Farming experience	−0.010	0.019	−0.002	0.007	−0.007	0.010
Education	0.273	0.242	0.039	0.086	0.161^c	0.086
Off/nonfarm activity			0.713E-04	0.000	0.125E-04	0.101
Family aged below 16	−0.038	0.054	−0.095^a	0.021	−0.062^a	0.011
Family aged above 50	0.142^c	0.077	0.027	0.041	−0.081	0.113
TLU per AE	0.199	0.142	0.042	0.088	0.042	0.088
land per AE	0.109	0.112	0.059^c	0.032	0.062^c	0.034
Market distance	0.017	0.018	−0.003	0.008	−0.015^c	0.008
Babile	−0.782^b	0.347
Gursum	−0.337	0.440
Coop office distance	−0.101	0.076
Social responsibility	1.693^a	0.238
SIGMA			0.406^a	0.027	0.387^a	0.027
RHO			−0.423^b	0.205	0.087	0.374