Table 6 Endogenous switching regression estimates on meta-TE.
Adoption of organic farming | TE with respect to metafrontier | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Organic farms | Conventional farms | ||
Variables | Coefficient | Coefficient | Coefficient |
Constant | − 15.8622*** | − 0.1117 | 0.5693*** |
(5.0895) | ( − 0.1117) | (0.1808) | |
Family labor | 0.0087 | − 0.0082 | − 0.0082** |
(0.0352) | (0.0053) | (0.0034) | |
Wage labor | − 0.0319 | − 0.0062 | − 0.0043* |
(0.0284) | (0.0061) | (0.0024) | |
Capital-land ratio | − 0.0015 | − 0.0007 | − 0.0002 |
(0.0012) | (0.0006) | (0.0000) | |
Age | − 0.1166 | 0.0205 | − 0.0007 |
(0.0732) | (0.0133) | (0.0062) | |
Age squared | 0.0009 | − 0.0002 | 0.0000 |
(0.0007) | (0.0001) | (0.0001) | |
Education | − 0.0063 | − 0.0104** | 0.0098*** |
(0.0273) | (0.0045) | (0.0026) | |
Farm years | 0.1039*** | 0.0032 | − 0.0047 |
(0.0353) | (0.0079) | (0.0043) | |
Farm years squared | − 0.0015** | − 0.0001 | 0.0001 |
(0.0007) | (0.0001) | (0.0001) | |
Olive trees | 0.0025 | − 0.0004 | 0.0012 |
(0.0727) | (0.0194) | (0.0085) | |
Olive trees squared | 0.0031 | 0.0003 | 0.0002 |
(0.0030) | (0.0008) | (0.0004) | |
Age olive trees | 0.0013 | 0.0108* | 0.0030* |
(0.0217) | (0.0061) | (0.0018) | |
Age olive trees squared | − 0.0001 | − 0.0001* | 0.0000 |
(0.0002) | (0.0001) | (0.0000) | |
Share irrigated area | − 0.0049 | − 0.0039*** | − 0.0006 |
(0.0059) | (0.0015) | (0.0008) | |
Price olive oil | 0.0193 | 0.0087 | − 0.0032 |
(0.0665) | (0.0145) | (0.0036) | |
Biennial bearing | 0.4734* | 0.0449 | 0.0286 |
(0.2617) | (0.0437) | (0.0254) | |
Distance | − 0.0111 | − 0.0062* | 0.0066** |
(0.0225) | (0.0033) | (0.0028) | |
Access to Cannan | 3.5504*** | ||
(0.4018) | |||
Modern olive presses | 0.2701*** | ||
(0.0705) | |||
σi | 0.1682** | 0.1558*** | |
(0.0682) | (0.0538) | ||
ρj | − 0.3475 | − 0.1906 | |
(0.4096) | (0.5070) | ||
Log pseudo-likelihood | |||
Observations | 261 | 80 | 181 |