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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of the invited and uninvited farmers

From: Does training location matter? Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Rural Indonesia

 

All

Invited for training

Non-invited for training

Mean difference invited vs non-invited for training

Household characteristics

 Age of household head

45.48

(11.58)

44.35

(10.96)

46.57

(12.07)

− 2.22***

 Years of schooling of household head

8.36

(3.39)

8.31

(3.23)

8.42

(3.55)

− 0.117

 No of adult in the family (15 – 64 years old)

2.83

(1.11)

2.74

(1.064)

2.911

(1.14)

− 0.166**

 Log of cultivated farmland

− 0.105

(0.748)

− 0.109

(.714)

− 0.101

(0.780)

0.008

 Log of estimated animal value

10.59

(6.499)

10.519

(6.566)

10.661

(6.441)

− 0.141

 Log of farm income

16.11

(1.24)

16.15

(1.21)

16.07

(1.26)

0.076

 Dummy of hired labor

(= 1 if yes)

0.80

(0.01)

0.809 (0.021)

0.802

(0.0166)

0.00744

 Native

(= 1 if yes)

0.067

(0.251)

0.085

(0.279)

0.050

(0.218)

0.035**

 Second generation migrant

(= 1 if yes)

0.623

0.484

0.618

(0.486)

0.628

0.483

− 0.010

 No. of mobile phone

1.608

(1.14)

1.57 (1.14)

1.637

(1.139)

− 0.058

 No. of motorbike

1.394

(0.932)

1.44

(0.988)

1.34

(0.87)

0.103*

Plot characteristics

    

 Distance to farmland

(in minutes)

22.09

(46.16)

24.66

(62.01)

19.62

(21.88)

5.04

Community characteristics

    

 Walking distance to unpaved road

(in minutes)

1.96

(5.18)

1.73

(3.97)

2.18

(6.10)

− 0.456

 Walking distance to paved road (in minutes)

3.74

(7.37)

4.07

(7.97)

3.419

(6.74)

0.657

Total no of observation

933

357

576

 
  1. Standard deviations are in parentheses
  2. ***, **, and * signify statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% level, respectively