Explaining the Variation in Farmers’ Earnings
Why do many CSA farmers work such long hours for a low and often insecure return, and why are other CSA farmers making a decent salary? Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data, I advance three major explanations that are related to the organization of production, the socially embedded moral economy, and alternative rationalities. First, I present an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model, with earnings as the variable to be explained (the dependent variable). Table 2 presents descriptive statistics for earnings and the seven explanatory (independent) variables in the model. Table 3 shows the OLS regression model.