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Table 4 Land rights, commercialization and food security

From: Smallholder farming commercialization and food security in Malawi: do land rights and intrahousehold bargaining power matter?

  

CF Stage 1:

CF Stage 2:

 

HCI

HCI

CSI

FCS

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Head is male

0.488***

0.452**

−1.456

3.329**

 

(0.179)

(0.178)

(0.917)

(1.332)

Matrilineal

−0.123**

−0.123**

2.225***

−1.049*

 

(0.060)

(0.060)

(0.416)

(0.615)

Bargaining power

0.161***

0.145***

−0.891***

2.334***

 

(0.044)

(0.037)

(0.311)

(0.439)

Matrilineal × bargaining power

−0.047

 

−0.870**

−0.766

 

(0.055)

 

(0.382)

(0.604)

Day market

−0.163***

−0.131**

−0.832**

1.845***

 

(0.061)

(0.062)

(0.380)

(0.552)

Household size

0.008

−0.002

0.564***

0.147

 

(0.017)

(0.017)

(0.104)

(0.155)

Years of education

0.029***

0.019**

−0.521***

1.267***

 

(0.009)

(0.010)

(0.060)

(0.089)

Age of head

0.023*

0.019

−0.147*

0.271**

 

(0.013)

(0.013)

(0.076)

(0.111)

Age of head—squared

−0.000*

−0.000*

0.001

−0.001

 

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.001)

(0.001)

Wealth

−0.653**

−1.433***

−7.052***

12.123***

 

(0.311)

(0.410)

(1.843)

(2.609)

FISP

0.100

0.059

  
 

(0.082)

(0.084)

  

Agricultural extension

0.223***

0.179***

  
 

(0.056)

(0.057)

  

Credit

0.051

0.037

1.359***

0.481

 

(0.057)

(0.057)

(0.341)

(0.486)

Central

0.527***

0.531***

  
 

(0.076)

(0.076)

  

South

−0.873***

−0.818***

  
 

(0.085)

(0.087)

  

Nonfarm income

  

−0.000***

0.000***

   

(0.000)

(0.000)

HCI

  

−2.620***

3.835***

   

(0.747)

(1.139)

HCI × bargaining power

  

1.013

−1.392

   

(0.753)

(1.139)

HCI × matrilineal

  

0.247

−1.295

   

(1.263)

(1.814)

HCI × bargaining power × matrilineal

  

0.236

4.677**

   

(1.329)

(2.027)

Wage employment

  

−2.849***

5.533***

   

(0.498)

(0.787)

Farming

  

−0.899*

1.983***

   

(0.505)

(0.756)

Nonfarm business

  

−2.569***

4.339***

   

(0.409)

(0.599)

Urban

  

−1.010

6.867***

   

(0.627)

(0.961)

   

(0.748)

(1.149)

Residual

  

−5.639***

−13.275***

   

(1.965)

(3.423)

_cons

−2.609***

−2.407***

17.795***

19.513***

 

(0.338)

(0.338)

(1.960)

(2.898)

Month FEs

NO

NO

YES

YES

var(e.csir)

  

100.991***

 
   

(2.756)

 

F/Chi2

660.24***

662.14***

640.72***

34.437***

P

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

N

4,337

4,337

4,336

4,337

  1. Robust standard errors are in parentheses. Column 1 estimates Eq. 2 using the fractional logit; columns 3 and 4 estimate Eq. 3 using the Tobit and OLS regression models, respectively; and Column 2 estimates Eq. 4, which is the first stage of the control function (CF). Food security regressions (Columns 3 and 4) include monthly fixed effects, which are not necessary for commercialization equations (Columns 1 and 2)
  2. *p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01