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Food Price Shocks and Political Unrest

Table 2: Model 2 using Percent Change of Food Price Index

Variables

IRR

Std. Error

P>|z|

95% Conf. Interval

Events Lagged

1.02

.003

0.000***

1.009986

1.020346

FPI Pct Change

1.01

.003

0.000***

1.00601

1.01817

Pct Urban

1.01

.005

0.081*

.9989319

1.018425

Net Food Importers

3.50

1.24

0.000***

1.751764

6.997624

FPI*NFIC

.988

.003

0.000***

.9822008

.9932367

Log of GDP

.793

.065

0.005**

.6748427

.9318297

Polity2

1.00

.008

0.955

.9830595

1.016265

Total Population

1.00

3.35e-06

0.000***

1.000007

1.00002

Note:    
a. Dependent variable: Number of events (SCAD)
b. An (*) indicates statistically significant at the .1 level
c. An (**) indicates statistically significant at the .05 level
d. An (***) indicates statistically significant at the .001 level
e. N = 688
f. Wald Chi2=242.46