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Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 6 Estimate impacts of informal institutions on youth participation in the agribusiness sector from regression’s framework.

From: Impact of informal institutions on youth agribusiness participation in Southern Benin

 

Identification strategy: logistic regression on the matched sample

 

Dependent variable: youth participation in the agribusiness sector (1 = yes; 0 = no)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Informal institution (1 = agribusiness-friendly)

9.180***

(2.984)

9.119***

(2.966)

9.538***

(0.3161)

9.717***

(3.335)

9.530***

(3.416)

6.624***

(3.788)

Access to credit (1 = yes)

  

0.831

(0.284)

   

Access to land (1 = yes)

   

4.163***

(1.388)

  

Access to technical knowledge (1 = yes)

    

9.360***

(3.477)

 

Informal institution*gender

     

0.618

(0.434)

Age (Continuous)

0.968

(0.037)

0.971

(0.037)

0.966

(0.037)

0.956

(0.037)

1.003

(0.043)

0.970

(0.037)

Gender (1 = male)

1.149

(0.395)

1.219

(0.430)

1.258

(0.447)

1.134

(0.419)

0.758

(0.304)

1.443

(0.600)

Marital status (1 = married)

0.819

(0.290)

0.846

(0.304)

0.905

(0.328)

1.022

(0.394)

0.531

(0.213)

0.837

(0.302)

Location (1 = urban)

0.413**

(0.141)

0.340***

(0.116)

0.359***

(0.123)

0.415**

(0.155)

0.314***

(0.122)

0.349***

(0.122)

Education (ordinal)

0.603***

(0.062)

0.595***

(0.063)

0.590***

(0.063)

0.615***

(0.068)

0.606***

(0.070)

0.589***

(0.063)

Father’s educational level (ordinal)

0.920

(0.101)

0.960

(0.106)

0.967

(0.108)

0.945

(0.113)

0.922

(0.112)

0.956

(0.107)

Father’s income (interval)

0.785*

(0.113)

0.678**

(0.111)

0.670**

(0.109)

0.669**

(0.115)

0.748*

(0.130)

0.683**

(0.113)

Income (interval)

2.116***

(0.374)

2.013***

(0.370)

2.047***

(0.379)

1.878***

(0.355)

2.050***

(0.396)

2.020***

(0.371)

Formal institutions (1 = good judiciary system)

0.921

(0.281)

0.913

(0.282)

0.906

(0.281)

0.839

(0.268)

0.601

(0.208)

0.931

(0.290)

Constant

1.287

(1.476)

3.916

(4.741)

3.978

(4.907)

1.960

(2.550)

0.386

(0.562)

4.786

(6.015)

Regional differences

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observations

356

356

355

356

355

356

Pseudo R-squared

0.31

0.41

0.42

0.44

0.49

0.41

  1. The coefficients reported in this table are odds ratio obtained from a logistic regression on the matched sample performed with Kernel algorithm
  2. A coefficient greater than unity indicates an increase in youth participation in agribusiness, while a value less than one indicates a decrease
  3. From column (2) to (6), regional differences, capturing municipality heterogeneities, were accounted for; nine out of the ten regional dummies were integrated into the regression to avoid multicollinearity
  4. The sample size drops from 478 to 355/356 due to the exclusion of observations off the common support and missing observations from explanatory variables
  5. *, **, and *** indicate significance at 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively; robust standard errors are reported in the parentheses
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