Skills Questions Asked to a Village Informant—Correlation with Skills Index and Prediction of Average Rank of Maize Yield
| Corresponding Skill Index | Correlation with Corresponding Skill Index | Explanatory Variables: Question Asked to Village | Regressions with the Average Rank of Maize Yield as Dependent Variable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive | 0.43 | Level of education | 4.73*** | 1.36 | |
| (1.30) | (1.55) | ||||
| Noncognitive | 0.22 | Active/motivated | 2.34 | 1.73 | |
| (2.06) | (2.16) | ||||
| Technical | 0.15 | Agricultural knowledge | 6.43*** | 5.89*** | |
| (1.72) | (1.74) | ||||
| Controls | Vil. FE | Vil. FE | All | ||
| Observations | 883 | 883 | 883 | ||
| R2 | 0.239 | 0.310 | 0.372 | ||
| F-test | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
Notes: Skill proxies obtained through village informant (CHW), scored on scale from 1 (low) to 3 (high). The right side of the table presents the correlation of the three questions asked to the village informant with the improved index of the corresponding skill, which the question intended to proxy. In the regressions, the dependent variable is the average rank of maize yields calculated over the four seasons (short rain 14 to long rain 16). Controls include education, literacy, gender, age and age squared of the farmer, land and cattle ownership, size and quality of the house, household size, whether the farmer is the household head, household head’s gender, village fixed effects (Vil. FE), and enumerator-assignment fixed effects. Standard errors clustered at village level in parentheses. Significance: *p < 0.1, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01.