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Table 6 OLS and Lewbel-IV estimates of the factors influencing household’s resilience to droughts

From: The role of camel production on household resilience to droughts in pastoral and agro-pastoral households in Uganda

Variable (standardized resilience)

Lewbel-IV

Ordinary least squares (OLS)

Coef.

Std. error

Coef.

Std. error

Constant

0.499*

0.024

0.668*

0.123

Proportion of camels to total herd

0.204***

0.117

0.083

0.109

Age of household head (years)

0.001

0.002

0.002

0.002

Occupation of household head (1, pastoralist; 0, otherwise)

− 0.103**

0.045

− 0.092

0.059

Household size (continuous)

0.009

0.006

0.004

0.006

Dependence ratio

− 0.026

0.031

− 0.022

0.030

Marital status (dummy)

− 0.049

0.049

− 0.046

0.073

A household member completed primary (dummy)

− 0.153*

0.054

− 0.144**

0.065

Household accessed credit (dummy)

0.078

0.048

0.072

0.056

Household received remittances (dummy)

0.017

0.048

0.021

0.062

Membership to association (dummy)

0.164*

0.055

0.163**

0.062

Asset ownership (1 = agricultural and non-agricultural assets; 0 = only agricultural assets)

− 0.016

0.044

0.003

0.048

Crop area cultivated (acres)

0.003

0.007

0.004

0.006

Received animal related extension services (dummy)

0.053

0.051

0.038

0.057

District (dummy 1 = Moroto; 0 = Amudat)

− 0.494*

0.045

− 0.460*

0.064

R2

0.522

 

0.541

 
  1. ***10%, **5%, and *1% level of significance. Standard errors in parentheses