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Table 4 Linear regressions showing the effects of income, poverty, inequality on farmers’ suicide, 2001-05

From: The political economy of farmers’ suicides in India: indebted cash-crop farmers with marginal landholdings explain state-level variation in suicide rates

 

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

Income

·554

·051

    
 

(·491)

(·223)

    

Poverty

  

- · 063

·233

  
   

(·339)

(·133)

  

Inequality

    

·322*

·092

    

(.115)

(·073)

Marginal farmers %

·441***

 

·428***

 

·429***

  

(·099)

 

(.099)

 

(·093)

Cash crops %

 

·514*

 

·549*

 

·448§

  

(·208)

 

(·205)

 

(·215)

Indebted farmers %

 

·542*

 

·571*

 

·395*

  

(·189)

 

(·184)

 

(·169)

Model N

90

90

90

90

75

75

Model F

1.27

14·83***

·03

16·39***

7.88*

14·12***

Model adjusted R2

·038

·738

·010

·757

·361

·735

  1. Notes:- *p < = · 05 (5%), **p < = · 01 (1%), ***p < = · 001 (0.1%), § p = ·056 (5.6%). Constants calculated but not reported. For inequality there is no data for Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and the north eastern states.
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