Research Article

The Determinants of Beef Cattle Market Participation on Beef Cattle Producers’ Welfare: A Case Study of West Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Table 9

The impact of beef cattle market participation on per capita consumption expenditure of beef cattle farmers (kernel-based matching algorithm, bandwidth ¼ 0.06).

Outcome variableSampleParticipantsNonparticipantsDifferenceSETstatAverage treatment effect with bootstrap standard error
ATEBootstrap SEZ

Per capita consumption expenditure (Birr in “000”)Unmatched90.118.781.410.8741.35
ATE90.098.181.990.9461.560.8931.75

Note: . Source: Field survey result, 2023.