Table 8

Fallow Investment

(1)(2)a(3)a(4)a(5)a,b(6)a,c
TobitTobitTobitTobitIV-TobitTV-Tobit
Sum of rights0.071 [5.98]***0.035 [2.98]***0.038 [3.54]***0.036 [3.43]***0.235 [1.90]*0.194 [0.53]
Total Iand11.376 [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 resident0.005 [4.61]***0.003 [2.98]***0.003 [2.58]**0.002 [1.15]0 [0.10]
Land acquisition
 Bought0.06 [1.26]
 Paid to use−0.094 [2.94]***
 Received gift−0.026 [0.93]
 Sharecropper−0.033 [0.85]
 Additional controlsNoNoYesYesYesYes
Observations1,3451,3451,3441,3441,3441,344
Village dummies737373737373
Cragg-Donald F3.580.47
Min. dist.9.360.89
P0.020.35
  • 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%.