Table 2 Probit results of households’ decision to participate in labor markets
Variable | Coefficeint | Std. err. | t-stat. |
|---|---|---|---|
Distance to wereda headquarters | −6.30E-04 | 8.60E-04 | −0.73297 |
Market access (good=1, 0=otherwise) | −0.19402 | 0.16333 | −1.1879 |
Road access (good=1, 0=otherwise) | 3.44E-02 | 0.152 | 0.22629 |
Sex of household head (male =1, 0=female) | 0.4611 | 0.19552 | 2.3583*** |
Age of household head | −1.47E-02 | 5.15E-03 | −2.8573*** |
Consumer worker ratio | 4.58E-02 | 8.19E-02 | 0.5595 |
Education of household head | −0.26426 | 0.16636 | −1.5885 |
Male labor in the household | 0.17305 | 9.04E-02 | 1.9134* |
Female labor in the household | 0.24278 | 0.10314 | 2.3539*** |
No of oxen in the household | −6.00E-02 | 0.11458 | −0.52382 |
Total livestock unit holding | 2.89E-02 | 4.23E-02 | 0.6834 |
Land owned | 0.11759 | 0.10883 | 1.0805 |
Population density | −0.20783 | 0.16592 | −1.2526 |
Estern zone | 2.89E-02 | 0.2193 | 0.13189 |
Central zone | 0.19045 | 0.19859 | 0.95901 |
Southern zone | 0.37269 | 0.2141 | 1.7407* |
Constant | 7.37E-03 | 0.47096 | 1.57E-02 |