Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms



Table 6: Bivariate Probit (Truncated Sample) Estimates

_________(1) Share-Rent_________

__________(2) Fixed-Rent__________

hire=1

share=1

hire=1

fixed=1

coeff

t-stat

coeff    t-stat

coeff

t-stat

coeff

t-stat

Contract Choice Equation

Constant

-1.093

-6.67

0.063   0.07

-1.092

-6.79

-1.722

-1.43

land owned - paddy

-0.707

-52.90

-0.544  -3.21

-0.707

-51.57

0.413

1.89

land owned - highland

-0.066

-12.25

0.019   0.53

-0.066

-12.12

-0.011

-0.30

household size

0.042

4.74

-0.001   -0.05

0.042

4.76

0.016

0.65

male adults (%)

0.370

4.01

-0.097  -0.44

0.370

3.98

0.116

0.49

female adults (%)

-0.017

-0.16

0.251    1.42

-0.016

-0.15

-0.300

-1.42

tractors owned

0.616

7.53

-0.074  -0.36

0.615

7.53

0.083

0.34

bullocks owned

0.030

4.58

0.069   3.20

0.030

4.60

-0.093

-4.12

% of students

-0.327

-3.44

-0.130  -0.78

-0.330

-3.47

-0.113

-0.53

education of head

0.067

4.18

0.026   0.83

0.067

4.16

0.007

0.17

education squared

-0.008

-5.58

-0.003  -1.06

-0.008

-5.58

0.000

0.13

sex of head

0.259

4.71

0.287   2.87

0.259

4.71

-0.244

-2.06

agricultural household

-0.058

-1.35

-0.061   -0.99

-0.058

-1.36

-0.041

-0.55

fisheries and livestock

0.226

6.42

-0.025  -0.25

0.227

6.45

0.074

0.64

ethnic group

0.255

2.06

0.056   0.24

0.256

2.12

0.761

1.93

skill

0.062

3.22

-0.035  -0.83

0.062

3.22

0.085

1.62

dry zone

0.123

2.86

-0.527  -3.23

0.122

2.84

0.601

3.49

hills

0.229

5.39

0.158   1.90

0.227

5.36

-0.134

-1.35

rho

0.540

1.29

-0.469

-1.07

no. observations

8428

8428

log likelihood

-5908.61

-5516.33

Land Extent Equation

Constant

-1.241

-0.82

3.992

2.13

land owned - paddy

-0.242

-0.47

0.711

4.37

land owned - highland

-0.009

-0.25

-0.096

-1.90

household size

0.063

2.58

0.057

1.48

male adults (%)

0.088

0.39

-0.072

-0.19

female adults (%)

0.382

1.66

-0.021

-0.05

tractors owned

0.689

2.16

-0.119

-0.78

bullocks owned

0.054

1.34

0.042

0.86

% of students

-0.168

-0.67

-0.040

-0.11

education of head

0.000

0.00

-0.124

-1.91

education squared

0.002

0.47

0.015

2.61

sex of head

0.208

0.86

0.085

0.41

agricultural household

0.184

2.11

0.237

1.55

fisheries and livestock

0.031

0.28

-0.458

-3.05

ethnic group

0.647

1.66

-1.107

-1.13

skill

-0.037

-0.90

0.074

0.85

dry zone

0.388

2.06

0.082

0.29

hills

0.143

0.89

0.200

1.10

lambda

0.670

0.71

-1.389

-3.04

number of obs.

1863

537

r-squared

0.042

0.226

60



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