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

Table 6 Interaction of treatment with the characteristics of new migrants

	Dependent variable: wealth index
Migrant characteristics	Female migrant	Seasonal migrant	Moved within region
New migrant X 2015	− 0.009	0.010	− 0.013
	(0.011)	(0.014)	(0.021)
New migrant * 2015	− 0.010	− 0.017	− 0.005
	(0.014)	(0.012)	(0.022)
Entropy balancing weights	Yes	Yes	Yes
Other controls	Yes	Yes	Yes
Household fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	960	960	960
Adjusted R²	0.528	0.528	0.528
Number of clusters	93	93	93

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