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Published in final edited form as: Land use policy. 2014 Jan;38:10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.09.001. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.09.001

Table 6.

Statistical analysis of agricultural transition to cattle ranching

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE TYPE		Pasture Purchased		Cows Owned
MODEL		Logistic Regression		2-Level Poisson Regression
		Odds Ratios	(SE)	Odds Ratios	(SE)
Ln(Migration/Remittances)		1.01	(0.03)	1.00	(0.03)
Ln(Savings)		1.06^***	(0.05)	1.03	(0.05)
Control Variables
HOH’s Age		0.97^**	(0.01)	0.99	(0.01)
Country^a	Costa Rica	10.25^***	(4.46)	0.47	(0.36)
	Guatemala	0.77	(0.57)	0.15^***	(0.08)
	El Salvador	0.00	(0.00)	1.31	(0.71)
Year		1.08⁺	(0.04)	NA
Owns Land		0.14^***	(0.04)	1.25	(0.47)
Owns Pasture		NA		1.59	(0.93)
Years Since Returning from US		0.45⁺	(0.20)	0.97	(0.05)
In US		1.66	(0.98)	1.14	(0.54)
N		6420		547
Log Likelihood		−301.14		−5291.96

Source: Latin American Migration Project 2000–2010

Notes:

⁺

p<0.10;

^**

p<0.01;

^***

p<0.001

(Nicaragua) Country of reference