**<u>Table 4: Farm Size Productivity Relationship: Yield Approach</u>**

|||**Holding level**|||**Plot**|**level**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Croed area (ha)|-0376***|-0347***|-0379***|-0476***|-0436***|-0448***|-0462***|
|pp|.<br>(30.061)|.<br>(24.225)|.<br>(25.246)|.<br>(55.459)|.<br>(43.209)|.<br>(43.732)|.<br>(34.106)|
|Land value/ha (USD)||0.215***|0.205***||0.200***|0.192***|0.187***|
|||(12.849)|(12.266)||(17.073)|(16.270)|(10.939)|
|Dist. from home (min)||0.002***|0.002***||-0.004***|-0.003***|-0.003***|
|||(5.062)|(4.832)||(5.996)|(4.887)|(4.574)|
|Years possessed||0.000|0.004**||0.001|0.004***|0.004**|
|||(0.014)|(2.544)||(0.836)|(3.916)|(2.234)|
|Plot in wetland||0.139|0.096||0.049|0.031|0.019|
|||(1.569)|(1.088)||(0.997)|(0.647)|(0.321)|
|Irrigated land||<br>-0.066|<br>-0.032||<br>-0.011|<br>0.000|<br>-0.020|
|||(0.777)|(0.387)||(0.206)|(0.003)|(0.253)|
|Flat land||-0.086|-0.083||-0.074**|-0.074**|0.045|
|||(1.639)|(1.599)||(2.225)|(2.255)|(1.032)|
|Gently sloped land||<br>-0.037|<br>-0.041||<br>-0.061**|<br>-0.068**|<br>-0.027|
|||(0.804)|(0.909)||(1.990)|(2.260)|(0.642)|
|Plot in valley||<br>0.091|<br>0.092||<br>-0.001|<br>-0.004|<br>0.051|
|||(0.596)|(0.611)||(0.009)|(0.062)|(0.607)|
|Sandy soil||-0.094|-0.085||-0.051|-0.046|-0.060|
|||(1.483)|(1.355)||(1.191)|(1.080)|(1.025)|
|Loam soil||0.164***|0.164***||0.143***|0.131***|0.031|
|||(3.102)|(3.156)||(4.023)|(3.726)|(0.629)|
|Light clay soil||<br>0.074|<br>0.073||<br>0.048|<br>0.039|<br>-0.033|
|||(1.087)|(1.088)||(1.101)|(0.915)|(0.564)|
|Heavy soil||<br>0.010|<br>-0.013||<br>0.016|<br>0.013|<br>0.080|
|||(0.082)|(0.105)||(0.225)|(0.183)|(0.858)|
|Gravelly soil||-0.031|-0.024||0.002|0.008|0.027|
|||(0.470)|(0.376)||(0.050)|(0.185)|(0.445)|
|Crop shock||-0.234***<br>|-0.218***<br>||-0.261***<br>|-0.233***<br>|-0.205***<br>|
|||(6.151)|(5.807)||(9.810)|(8.817)|(5.527)|
|Grains|||-0.916***|||-0.784***|-0.518***|
||||(3.582)|||(6.355)|(3.817)|
|Tubers|||<br>-0.508*|||<br>-0.600***|<br>-0.438***|
||||(1.950)|||(4.821)|(3.203)|
|Tree crops|||-0.586**|||-0.421***|-0.198|
||||(2.254)|||(3.320)|(1.415)|
|Age of head|||<br>-0.002|||<br>-0.001||
||||(0.964)|||(0.770)||
|Female head|||<br>-0.159***|||<br>-0.149***||
||||(3.847)|||(4.569)||
|Primary school comp.|||0.066*|||0.052*||
||||(1.790)|||(1.832)||
|Sec. education|||<br>0.115|||<br>0.123**||
||||(1638)|||(2376)||
|No of members <=14|||.<br>0.026**|||.<br>0.024***||
||||(2.212)|||(2.719)||
|No of members 15- 35|||0.011|||-0.008||
||||<br>(0.744)|||<br>(0.713)||
|No of members 35- 60|||<br>0.042|||<br>-0.014||
||||(1.619)|||(0.728)||
|No of members >=60|||<br>0.004|||<br>-0.047||
||||(0072)|||(1248)||
|Constant|5.124***|3.289***|.<br>3.928***|4.511***|2.961***|.<br>3.590***|3.346***|
||(183.631)|(22.304)|(12.852)|(162.482)|(29.134)|(21.017)|(16.577)|
|Village fixed effects|<br>No|<br>Yes|<br>Yes|<br>No|<br>Yes|<br>Yes|<br>No|
|Hh fixed effects||||No|No|No|Yes|
|No of observations|3,080|3,062|3,060|7,477|7,308|7,305|7,308|
|R-squared|0.227|0.305|0.332|0.292|0.345|0.363|0.361|

_Note:_ Regressions are for owned plots only (see separate appendix for results with all plots). Absolute value of t-statistics in parenthesis: *** significant at 1%; ** significant at 5%; * significant at 1%.

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