Fallow Investment
(1) | (2)a | (3)a | (4)a | (5)a,b | (6)a,c | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tobit | Tobit | Tobit | Tobit | IV-Tobit | TV-Tobit | |
Sum of rights | 0.071 [5.98]*** | 0.035 [2.98]*** | 0.038 [3.54]*** | 0.036 [3.43]*** | 0.235 [1.90]* | 0.194 [0.53] |
Total Iand | 11.376 [11.76]*** | 9.855 [10.60]*** | 11.818 [12.82]*** | 11.609 [12.61]*** | 9.628 [5.63]*** | 37.95 [1.02] |
Total Iand sq. | −40.661 [6.72]*** | −33.859 [5.84]*** | −45.863 [8.42]*** | −44.942 [8.27]*** | −36.991 [4.47]*** | 7.615 [0.03] |
Outsider | −0.248 [7.31]*** | −0.169 [4.97]*** | −0.158 [4.64]*** | −0.095 [1.61] | 0.006 [0.04] | |
Non-Ivoirian | −0.107 [3.71]*** | −0.008 [0.15] | 0.01 [0.19] | 0.017 [0.29] | 0.017 [0.15] | |
Years resident | 0.005 [4.61]*** | 0.003 [2.98]*** | 0.003 [2.58]** | 0.002 [1.15] | 0 [0.10] | |
Land acquisition | ||||||
Bought | 0.06 [1.26] | |||||
Paid to use | −0.094 [2.94]*** | |||||
Received gift | −0.026 [0.93] | |||||
Sharecropper | −0.033 [0.85] | |||||
Additional controls | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Observations | 1,345 | 1,345 | 1,344 | 1,344 | 1,344 | 1,344 |
Village dummies | 73 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 73 |
Cragg-Donald F | 3.58 | 0.47 | ||||
Min. dist. | 9.36 | 0.89 | ||||
P | 0.02 | 0.35 |
Note: Tobit and Newey’s IV tobit with village and year fixed effects. Dependent variable: proportion of total Iand Ieft fallow. 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 Oflivestock; 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, and whether they Iive in the household; proportion ofland in a co-op; proportion of Iand in a development scheme; percentage planted to cocoa and coffee as primary crops.
↵b Instrumented: sum of rights. Instruments: bought Iand in past year, paid for use of Iand in the past year, received Iand as a gift in the past year, sharecropper.
↵c Instrumented: sum of rights, total land, total Iand squared. Instruments: bought Iand in past year, paid for use ofland in the past year, received Iand as a gift in the past year, sharecropper.
↵* Significant at 10%;
↵** significant at 5%;
↵*** significant at 1%.