Table 4

Determinants of Amount of Land Rented-in by Tenants (Coefficient Estimates from Tobit Model)

Dependent Variable: Hectares of Land Rented-in(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Prerental land (ha)–0.5601
(0.000)***
–0.4861
(0.035)**
Prerental land × (Age < 35)–0.4825
(0.000)***
Prerental land × (Age ≥ 35)–0.6028
(0.000)***
Prerental land × (Age 17–35)–0.4559
(0.000)***
Prerental land × (Age 35–55)–0.6126
(0.000)***
Prerental land × (Age > 55)–0.6179
(0.000)***
Prerental land × Age of head–0.0111
(0.000)***
–0.0017
(0.719)
Age of head–0.0220
(0.000)***
–0.0190
(0.000)***
–0.0181
(0.000)***
–0.0095
(0.002)***
–0.0200
(0.000)***
Household size  0.0099
(0.816)
  0.0099
(0.813)
  0.0116
(0.781)
  0.0068
(0.871)
  0.0093
(0.826)
Maximum educational attainment  0.0040
(0.862)
  0.0030
(0.896)
  0.0027
(0.905)
  0.0025
(0.912)
  0.0036
(0.873)
Female head = 1–0.0179
(0.960)
–0.0407
(0.910)
–0.0528
(0.883)
  0.0313
(0.927)
–0.0134
(0.970)
Number of plots  0.9992
(0.000)***
  0.9948
(0.000)***
  0.9905
(0.000)***
  0.9609
(0.000)***
  0.9997
(0.000)***
Inverse hyperbolic sine (assets)  0.0776
(0.005)***
  0.0788
(0.004)***
  0.0800
(0.003)***
  0.0767
(0.005)***
  0.0779
(0.004)***
Rural = 1  0.1762
(0.567)
  0.1832
(0.550)
  0.1855
(0.544)
  0.1782
(0.563)
  0.1788
(0.561)
Kilometers to road–0.0036
(0.764)
–0.0038
(0.753)
–0.0038
(0.751)
–0.0030
(0.805)
–0.0036
(0.765)
Kilometers to market–0.0017
(0.851)
–0.0015
(0.869)
–0.0015
(0.873)
–0.0019
(0.839)
–0.0017
(0.852)
Elevation  0.0015
(0.057)*
  0.0015
(0.061)*
  0.0015
(0.060)*
  0.0014
(0.069)*
  0.0015
(0.058)*
Slope–0.0472
(0.231)
–0.0475
(0.234)
–0.0479
(0.230)
–0.0493
(0.221)
–0.0475
(0.230)
Log(Population density)–0.0000
(0.999)
–0.0000
(0.991)
–0.0000
(0.993)
–0.0000
(0.975)
–0.0000
(0.998)
Bimodal rainfall = 1–0.9394
(0.306)
–0.9889
(0.283)
–0.9949
(0.278)
–1.0850
(0.245)
–0.9553
(0.300)
Mean annual rainfall  0.0024
(0.220)
  0.0024
(0.223)
  0.0024
(0.223)
  0.0022
(0.270)
  0.0024
(0.226)
N8,7418,7418,7418,7418,741
  • Note: Mundlak-Chamberlain controls: time-averages of time-varying regressors. Year dummies included, but coefficients not reported. p-Values are cluster robust.

  • * p < 0.10;

  • ** p < 0.05;

  • *** p < 0.01.