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

Table 7 Effect of having a new migrant on likelihood to invest in different activities

	Refurbishment of house	Improvement to agricultural land	Development of non-agricultural land	Others
New migrant * 2015	− 0.2972**	0.1310	0.3897	0.1298
	(0.153)	(0.118)	(6.386)	(0.260)
2015 (=1)	0.1685*	− 0.1174	− 0.3635	0.0274
	(0.101)	(0.102)	(5.957)	(0.051)
Other controls	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Household fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	158	108	54	60
Pseudo R²	0.186	0.373	0.548	0.519
Log likelihood	− 26.4	− 13.7	− 2.33	− 4.86

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, employment status of the household head, dependency ratio and community employment rate. Source: Authors’ calculations based on MooP Ghana panel study