Determinants of maize seed income and adoption of foundation seed production: evidence from Palpa District of Nepal

Table 7 Effect on income using the instrumental variable model

Variables	Coefficients	Standard error	t value	p value
Gender of HHH^a	0.019	0.097	0.190	0.849
Age of HHH (year)	0.006**	0.003	2.010	0.046
Education of HHH (year)	0.015*	0.009	1.720	0.088
Educated members	0.031**	0.014	2.200	0.029
Maize area (hectare)	2.403***	0.211	11.380	0.000
Livestock holding (LSU)	0.006	0.011	0.570	0.569
Foundation seed production^a	0.206	1.006	0.210	0.838
Extension service^a	0.255	0.157	1.620	0.106
Membership in cooperative	0.146**	0.069	2.110	0.036
Migration^a	−0.264***	0.070	−3.790	0.000
Constant	8.246***	0.246	33.560	0.000
Observations	182
F (10, 171)	24.20***
R ²	0.5968
Adj R ²	0.5732
Instrumented	Foundation seed production (dummy)

***, **, * Indicate significant at the 1, 5 and 10% level of significance, respectively
^aIndicates a dummy variable

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