Table 5.

Summary statistics of main variables used in regressions.

	Ethiopia	Malawi	Niger	Tanzania	Uganda
Log labor demand (person-days)	4.47	3.85	4.26	4.27	4.72
	1.23	0.97	0.98	0.98	0.77
Log acres owned	0.10	−0.52	1.36	0.71	0.19
	1.78	2.04	2.39	1.89	1.79
Log HH size	1.17	0.84	1.02	0.98	1.12
	0.44	0.45	0.46	0.49	0.58
Log median wage (local currency)	2.768	5.563	6.998	7.82	8.761
	1.083	0.539	0.443	0.489	0.649
Prime male share	0.33	0.40	0.42	0.40	0.37
	0.20	0.23	0.18	0.24	0.23
Prime female share	0.37	0.48	0.51	0.46	0.43
	0.20	0.24	0.16	0.24	0.24
Elderly female share	0.14	0.07	0.03	0.08	0.11
	0.20	0.21	0.11	0.20	0.21
N	2499	2556	2183	2346	2047

Notes: Authors’ calculations from LSMS-ISA data sets; main entries are mean values, with standard deviations below; survey weights used.