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Food Price Shocks and Political Unrest

Table 3: Model 3 using Actual Change of Food Price Index

Variables

IRR

Std. Error

P>|z|

95% Conf. Interval

Events Lagged

1.02

.003

0.000***

1.010158

1.020489

FPI  Change

1.01

.002

0.000***

1.00558

1.015009

Pct Urban

1.01

.005

0.100*

.9984454

1.017906

Net Food Importers

3.38

1.16

0.000***

1.717045

6.634543

FPI*NFIC

.988

.003

0.000***

.9827523

.993435

Log of GDP

.794

.065

0.005**

.6763571

.9330402

Polity2

.998

.008

0.811

.981589

1.014654

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=245.73