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Table 10 Effect of new migrant on household welfare controlling for major shocks in community

From: Following in their footsteps: an analysis of the impact of successive migration on rural household welfare in Ghana

 

Wealth index

New migrant*2015

− 0.021

 

(0.018)

New migrant *shock* 2015

0.015

 

(0.023)

Shock

− 0.018

 

(0.017)

Entropy balancing weights

Yes

Other controls

Yes

Household fixed effects

Yes

Observations

902

Adjusted R2

0.521

Number of clusters

87

  1. Notes: Significance levels *10%, **5%, and ***1%. Fixed effects estimator. S.E. clustered at community level; other controls include whether the household has a returned migrant, occupation of the household head, dependency ratio and community employment rate. Source: Authors’ calculations based on MooP Ghana panel study