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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 26.
Published in final edited form as: Glob Environ Change. 2016 Oct 7;41:111–123. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.09.006

Table 4.

Results from models predicting per capita food consumption, rainy season food security, and crop yields based on recent climate

Per capita food
consumption
(logged)
Household
experienced food
insecurity during
prior rainy
season1
Crop yields (logged)
Teff Barley Maize Wheat

Coefficient Coefficient Coefficient Coefficient Coefficient Coefficient
Climate variables
Summer temperature, t-1 −0.18 1.50** −0.61** 0.09 −0.35 0.28
Summer precipitation, t-1 0.05 −0.64 0.05 0.12 0.23 0.20
Winter temperature, t 0.00 0.09 −0.01 −0.08 −0.13
Winter precipitation, t 0.03 −0.16 −0.31 0.01 0.35*
Spring temperature, t −0.16*
Spring precipitation, t 0.04
Household controls
Number of children aged 0–6 −0.11*** 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.00
Number of children aged 7–18 −0.06*** −0.07 0.00 0.03 0.02 0.02
Age of household head 0.00 0.00 0.01* 0.00 0.00 0.00
Household head has any formal schooling 0.02** −0.08* 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.01
Female-headed household −0.03 0.29+ −0.17* −0.24*** −0.11 −0.09*
Ln (land area + 1) 0.19** −0.43+ −0.42** −0.50* −0.03 −0.24*
Joint tests
Climate variables 2.88* 10.83** 8.57** 0.92 0.72 3.80*
Community fixed-effects 35514.68*** 21000.00*** 6729.68*** 641.20*** 6520.23*** 36473.63***
Survey year fixed-effects 12.11*** 6.42* 6.69** 2.95+ 10.52** 2.61
Constant 4.11*** 0.19* 5.15*** 6.36*** 5.96*** 5.84***
N households 2394 1163 862 729 727 704
N villages 15 15 12 9 13 12
1

Food security data were only collected in the 2004 and 2009 survey rounds