Skip to main content

Table 4 Results of probit regression

From: Does the future of a farm depend on its neighbourhood? Evidence on intra-family succession among fruit and vegetable farms in Italy

 

Farm and farmer variables; no labour market and surrounding condition (LMSC) variables (model 3)

Farm and farmer variables; LMSC variables in linear form (model 4)

Farm and farmer variables; LMSC variables in non-linear form (model 7)

Farmer age

0.0121

0.0118

− 0.1481*

Farmer age_sq

–

–

0.0013*

Farmer degree

− 0.9126***

− 0.9698***

− 0.8957***

Farmer children

0.0372

0.092

0.1379**

Turnover_250

− 0.3030*

− 0.3309*

− 0.3785**

Farm duration

0.0116***

0.0108***

0.01***

RPFV farm

0.8196**

0.4348

0.8985***

Fruit farm

− 1.3773***

− 1.2117**

− 1.1348**

Emplwork

− 0.0108***

− 0.0113**

− 0.0104*

Workdays

0.0007**

0.0006**

0.0007**

Workdays_sq

0.0000**

0.0000*

0.0000**

Distance

0.0080**

−0.0004

− 0.0008***

Distance_sq

0.0000**

–

–

Popdens

–

0.0000

− 0.0036***

Popdens_sq

–

–

0.0000***

Empl

–

0.0164

2.7195***

Empl_sq

–

–

− 0.025***

Agrshare

–

− 11.2887***

− 4.8662

Incgap

–

0.1382***

− 1.3349***

Incgap_sq

–

 

0.0335***

Hills

0.7892

1.9286***

2.3695***

Mountain

1.4278***

− 1.1795

− 10.8799***

Campania

0.6311*

1.0965

7.0349***

Piemonte

−1.291***

− 2.2433***

− 7.041***

Veneto

0.1133

2.6116***

1.6324**

Emilia-Romagna

− 0.0911

0.5548

− 0.9747

Constant

− 1.8808***

− 5.0828

− 57.2248**

N obs

259

259

259

Pseudo R2

23%

26%

30%

  1. *, ** and ***, denote significance at 10%, 5% and 1%, respectively
  2. The table reports three of seven different model specifications. The complete version with all the models is presented in Additional file 1: Annex 1
  3. The parameter estimates whose sign and significance are stable across different specifications are presented in italics (those not presented in Table 3 are available as supplemental material)