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Table 5 Gendered decision-making effects on crop commercialization

From: The gendered nature of household decision making and expenditure choices in the context of smallholder agricultural commercialization in Malawi

Dependent var: CCI

dy/dx

SE

Log age of household head

0.001

(0.167)

Adult equivalents

− 0.097***

(0.030)

Man headed household (0/1)

0.044

(0.044)

Men adults only (0/1)

− 0.007

(0.005)

Women adults only (0/1)

0.012**

(0.005)

Man head control crop income (0/1)

0.028

(0.023)

Woman head control crop income (0/1)

− 0.015*

(0.009)

Man head is plot manager (0/1)

− 0.044

(0.031)

Woman head is plot manager (0/1)

0.022**

(0.010)

Log value of durable assets

0.146***

(0.036)

Adequate food past month (0/1)

0.035***

(0.010)

Total livestock units

0.004

(0.007)

Land size (ha)

0.007

(0.012)

Land productivity

0.593***

(0.097)

Hired labor (0/1)

− 0.031***

(0.010)

Purchased fertilizer (0/1)

− 0.025

(0.017)

Number of crops cultivated

0.151***

(0.032)

Mchinji district (0/1)

0.010

(0.013)

  1. Table presents fractional logit estimates of drivers of commercialization based on cross-sectional data of households in 2018. (0/1) indicates dichotomous variables for the stated category equal to 1, otherwise equal to 0 for the base category. Standard errors are presented in in parentheses
  2. * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01