Table 9

Yields

(1)(2)a(3)a(4)a(5)b
OLSOLSOLSOLSIV
Proportion fallow14.548 [2.53]**20.866 [2.90]***20.072 [2.56]**20.152 [2.56]**5.616 [0.18]
Sum of rights−0.13 [0.20]0.104 [0.20]0.05 [0.10]0.456 [0.55]
Total land2304.646 [3.29]***− 350.72 [3.48]***− 354.125 [3.51]***− 2204.652 [0.63]
Total land sq.959.542 [2.52]**1,146.59 [2.94]***1,164.87 [2.98]***609.244 [0.51]
Outsider3.95 [2.72]***2.43 [1.73]*2.346 [1.61]0.826 [0.23]
Non-Ivoirian0.89 [0.75]1.426 [0.67]0.696 [0.31]1.381 [0.65]
Years resident−0.118 [3.31]***20.068 [1.42]−0.069 [1.41]−0.043 [0.62]
Land acquisition
 Bought2.91 [0.90]
 Paid to use2.726 [1.54]
 Received gift−0.633 [0.48]
 Sharecropper−2.475 [1.55]
 Additional controlsNoNoYesYesYes
Observations1,3421,3421,3411,3411,341
Village dummies7373737373
R-squared0.040.060.120.122.58
Cragg-Donald F
Hansen J3.82
Hansen p0.28
  • Note: OLS and IV with village and year fixed effects. Dependent variable: yield of annual crops per cultivated hectare (CFA/ha e-03), top-coded at 100. Absolute value of t- or z-statistics in brackets.

  • a Additional controls: head’s age; age squared; years education; gender; literacy; head married; head’s religion; housing size; value of livestock; durables and equipment owned by the household; number of tools owned; remittances in and out; household’s other income; household’s savings; dummy if household owns its housing; number of rooms; household size; number of adults; head’s mother’s and father’s educations, whether they are living, andwhether they live in the household; proportion ofland in a co-op; proportion ofland in a development scheme; percentage planted to cocoa and coffee as primary crops.

  • b Instrumented: proportion fallow. Instruments: bought land in past year, paid for use of land in the past year, received land as a gift in the past year, sharecropper.

  • * Significant at 10%;

  • ** significant at 5%;

  • *** significant at 1%.