Table 11

Expropriation Risk

(1)(2)a(3)a(4)a,b(5)a,c
OLSOLSOLSIVIV
Lag any fallow0.197 [2.73]***0.004 [0.05]0.013 [0.16]− 0.538 [0.94]−0.633 [0.96]
Lag sum of rights−0.041 [1.07]−0.078 [2.22]**−0.075 [2.28]**−0.069 [1.85]*−0.204 [0.91]
Outsider0.05 [0.45]0.096 [0.71]0.085 [0.62]−0.021 [0.12]−0.074 [0.36]
Head non-Ivoirian0.196 [2.05]**−0.058 [0.47]−0.09 [0.67]−0.057 [0.38]−0.078 [0.46]
Years resident−0.005 [1.69]*−0.006 [1.77]*−0.006 [1.62]−0.004 [1.07]−0.003 [0.65]
Lagged land acquisition
 Bought0.06 [0.55]
 Paid to use0.033 [0.31]
 Received gift−0.034 [0.32]
 Sharecropper0.218 [1.89]*
 Additional controlsNoYesYesYesYes
Observations568568568568568
Village dummies5050505050
R-squared0.040.230.24
Cragg-Donald F21.84
Hansen J2.882.06
Hansen p0.410.36
  • Note: OLS and IV with village fixed effects. Dependent variable: lost land (dummy); excludes households for which change was more than 20 ha. Absolute value of t-or z-statistics in brackets.

  • a Additional controls (lagged): 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; total land; total land squared.

  • b Instrumented: lag any fallow. Instruments (lagged): bought land in past year, paid for use of land in the past year, received land as a gift in the past year, sharecropper.

  • c Instrumented: lag any fallow, lag sum of rights. Instruments (lagged): 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%.