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Table 2 Random-effect Tobit regression

From: Staying in the cities or returning home? An analysis of the rural-urban migration behavior in Vietnam

 

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

coef/se

coef/se

coef/se

coef/se

Individual characteristics

 Female (1 yes, 0 no)

0.113

0.089

0.117

0.056

(0.357)

(0.356)

(0.357)

(0.356)

 Number of years in school

0.599***

0.588***

0.603***

0.578***

(0.045)

(0.045)

(0.045)

(0.045)

 Marital status (1 single, 0 others)

6.584***

6.592***

6.487***

6.549***

(0.463)

(0.461)

(0.464)

(0.460)

 Age (years)

1.746***

1.693***

1.752***

1.610***

(0.094)

(0.094)

(0.094)

(0.094)

 Square of age

−0.028***

−0.027***

−0.028***

−0.026***

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

Household characteristics

 Female head (1 yes, 0 no)

−0.920*

−0.866*

−0.934*

−0.895*

(0.514)

(0.513)

(0.514)

(0.511)

 Number of years in school of HH head (years)

0.113**

0.109**

0.110**

0.094*

(0.051)

(0.050)

(0.051)

(0.050)

 Age of HH head (years)

0.277***

0.264***

0.276***

0.243***

(0.018)

(0.018)

(0.018)

(0.018)

 Dependency ratio

−8.158***

−8.485***

−8.674***

−9.484***

(0.909)

(0.908)

(0.935)

(0.915)

 HH engaged in non-farm activities (1 yes, 0 no)

0.666*

0.538

0.684**

0.380

(0.340)

(0.339)

(0.340)

(0.339)

 Total own land (ha)

−0.084

−0.079

−0.087

−0.109

(0.082)

(0.081)

(0.083)

(0.084)

 Total number of demographic shocks

0.396**

0.194

0.513**

0.204

(0.198)

(0.199)

(0.203)

(0.197)

 Total number of social shocks

1.179**

0.675

1.277**

0.049

(0.527)

(0.529)

(0.529)

(0.531)

 Total number of agricultural shocks

−0.489***

−0.673***

−0.351**

−0.709***

(0.150)

(0.152)

(0.160)

(0.150)

 Total number of economics shocks

0.346

0.140

0.440

0.172

(0.438)

(0.437)

(0.439)

(0.434)

Village characteristics

 Number of enterprises

−0.102

−0.092

−0.101

−0.078

(0.091)

(0.091)

(0.091)

(0.091)

 Access to the Internet (% of households)

0.074***

0.061***

0.079***

0.023

(0.023)

(0.023)

(0.023)

(0.024)

 Log of distance to district town

−0.168

−0.080

−0.175

−0.057

(0.210)

(0.209)

(0.210)

(0.209)

 Ha Tinh province (1 yes, 0 no)

3.052***

14.439***

3.081***

3.092***

(0.466)

(1.554)

(0.466)

(0.465)

 Thua Thien Hue province (1 yes, 0 no)

3.511***

3.077***

3.563***

3.576***

(0.454)

(0.455)

(0.454)

(0.452)

Macro indicators

 Income gap between destination and original provinces

 

−17.402***

  
 

(2.266)

  

 Share of agricultural production in total GDP

  

0.422**

 
  

(0.173)

 

 Growth of GDP per capita

   

25.645***

   

(2.126)

 Constant

−59.197***

−17.372***

−67.365***

−227.072***

(1.983)

(5.694)

(3.924)

(14.219)

 Number of observations

21,045

21,045

21,045

21,045

  1. Source: own calculations based on the DFG Rural Household Surveys 2007, 2008, and 2010
  2. *, **, and *** indicate statistically significant levels at 10, 5, and 1%, respectively