Land tenure policy and off-farm employment in rural China

Table 14 The effect of RLCL on employment outcomes of Men. Estimates by using a probit model

Dependent variable	Employment	Farm	Off-farm	Wage employment	Self-employment
Land security × year08	0.048** (0.02)	0.019 (0.021)	0.071*** (0.023)	0.059** (0.023)	0.000 (0.014)
Land security × year95	0.020** (0.009)	0.002 (0.014)	0.013 (0.016)	0.017 (0.016)	0.008 (0.01)
Land security	− 0.022*** (0.007)	− 0.005 (0.01)	0.000 (0.01)	− 0.007 (0.01)	0.009 (0.007)
Year08	0.28*** (0.109)	− 0.288* (0.158)	0.328** (0.163)	0.400** (0.165)	− 0.079 (0.104)
Year95	− 0.065*** (0.009)	− 0.129*** (0.013)	− 0.277*** (0.014)	− 0.231*** (0.014)	− 0.032*** (0.009)
R ²	0.27	0.28	0.24	0.20	0.20
No. of obs.	31,308	31,482	31,034	30,998	28,726

Notes: (.) indicates standard error; significant at the 1% (***), 5% (**), and 10% (*) levels. Each regression also includes the intercept, individual age and education level, land used by the household in log form, family financial assets in log form, village per capita income in log form, village consumption level in log form, and county fixed effects. Source: The following data sources, if not specifically stated, are from CHIP