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Table 4: The Effect of Women Empowerment on Agricultural Production

Variables OLS 2SLS Control Function

CFa CFb
Agricultural Production
Women empowerment -.162*** 1.668* 2.496** 1.153** (2.06)
indicator (4.75) (1.77) (2.56)
Access to agricultural -.142 .447 .452* -.253*
financing (1.52) (1.73) (1.84) (-1.84)
Marital status -.046 -.735* -.802*** -.084*** (2.70)
(0.60) (1.82) (2.71)
Access to credit .000*** .000 000 .000
(3.24) (1.16) (1.34) (1.34)
Socio-economic status .396*** -.332 -.564* -.165*
(5.51) (0.92) (1.74) (1.74)
Log of fertilizer used .032 .777* 1.292*** 1.293***
(0.52) (1.75) (2.61) (1.74)
Use of modern -.068 .079 .083 .283
agricultural equipment (0.68) (3.32) (2.45) (0.46)
Agricultural primary .008 -.043 .063* -.003*
activity (0.85) (-1.09) (1.92) (1.91)
Log of cost of seeds .302*** .230* .111 .311
(10.30) (1.87) (0.90) (0.89)
Log of farm size -.603*** .432** .849*** -.449***
(-7.11) (1.97) (4.86) (4.86)
Cost of fertilizer -.000 .001 .001 .001
(-0.11) (0.71) (1.22) (1.21)
Formal Agricultural .001 .002* .003*** -.003***
training (1.27) (1.81) (2.87) (2.87)
Household size .063*** -.012 -.044 -.044
(5.49) (-0.29) (-1.16) (1.16)
Age .012*** .016*** .016*** .016*** (4.30)
(5.44) (2.58) (4.31)
Use specialized seeds .182* .002 .067 -.067
(1.78) (2.01) (2.37) (-0.37)
Place of residence .442*** -.010 -.330 -.332
( 4.16) (-0.03) (-0.89) (-0.89)
Predicted WE residual n/a n/a 2.387** 2.391**
(2.44) ( 2.44)
WE* Predicted WE n/a n/a n/a -.004
residual (-0.08)
Constant 9.472645*** 3.887025 4.482588* 4.484* (1.93)
(11.04) (1.04) (1.93)
R-squared 0.2435 0.8935 0.1863 0.1848
F test of excluded 40.38[16, 1941; 4.06[16, 570; 0.0000] 8.89[17, 569; 8.38[18, 568;
instruments/Joint F/  0.0000] 0.0000] 0.0000]
2
Sanderson-Windmeijer F- n/a 4.72[1,570; 0.0302] n/a n/a
test
Cragg-Donald F-Stat n/a 4.723[16.38] n/a n/a
Sargan statistic n/a 0.0000 n/a n/a
2
Durbin-Wu-Hausman  n/a 6.085[0.0136] n/a n/a
test
Observation 1958 587 587 587
Computed by using author, using STATA 14.2 Note: Values in parentheses represent
robust t-statistics while ***, **, * indicate 1%, 5% and 10% level of significance
respectively.
Source: Author

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