Table 5

Land Rights

(1)(2)a(3)a,b
OLSOLSIV
Outsider−0.473 [4.47]***−0.333 [2.88]***−0.317 [2.75]***
Non-Ivoirian−0.291 [3.49]***−0.143 [0.91]−0.155 [0.96]
Years resident0.009 [2.99]***0.006 [1.95]*0.006 [1.82]*
Total land10.345 [4.06]***10.412 [4.12]***
Total land sq.−40.554 [2.55]**−40.64 [2.62]***
Prop. coffee0.107 [1.05]−0.101 [0.38]
Prop. cocoa−0.09 [0.70]0.075 [0.23]
Land acquisition
 Bought−0.023 [0.14]−0.031 [0.20]
 Paid to use0.017 [0.17]0.016 [0.15]
 Received gift−0.179 [1.71]*− 0.173 [1.65]*
 Sharecropper−0.238 [2.30]**−0.227 [2.29]**
 Additional controlsNoYesYes
Observations1,3451,3441,344
Village dummies737373
R-squared0.110.18
Cragg-Donald F89.76
  • Note: OLS and IV with village and year fixed effects. Dependent variable: sum of sale and transfer rights. 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.

  • b Instrumented: proportions of coffee and cocoa. Instruments: percentage land in coffee and cocoa nearing the end of its productive life.

  • * Significant at 10%;

  • ** significant at 5%;

  • *** significant at 1%.