Climate change, crop production and child under nutrition in Ethiopia; a longitudinal panel study

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Table 8 Panel regression results on the effect of rainfall and temperature on severe wasting, Ethiopia, 1996–2004

	All zone model		Lowlands		Midlands		Highlands
	coef†	se‡	coef	se	coef	se	coef	se
Rainfall during growing season	0.04	0.10	0.09	0.18	0.29	0.20	-0.14	0.15
Temperature	-0.11	0.13	0.05	0.28	-0.17	0.23	-0.11	0.2
Quadratic term for rainfall	0.26*	0.14	0.19	0.29	0.49*	0.26	0.26	0.25
Per capita crop	0.26**	0.1	0.62	0.19**	0.09	0.19	0.23	0.15
Livestock	-0.26**	0.12	-0.10	0.23	-0.32	0.23	-0.41**	0.17
Number of observations	121		32		39		50
Within R²	0.27		0.45		0.22		0.35
Between R²	0.05		0.02		0.45		0.91
Overall R²	0.26		0.45		0.22		0.35

Note: **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1 , †model coefficients, ‡standard errors of the coefficient.

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