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

Table 8 Testing for heterogeneity by migration motives

	Dependent variable: housing quality index
Reason for migration	Family	Work	Education
New migrant * 2015	− 0.019	− 0.011	− 0.014
	(0.012)	(0.012)	(0.011)
New migrant moves for X reason * 2015	0.016	− 0.009	− 0.010
	(0.017)	(0.014)	(0.013)
Entropy balancing weights	Yes	Yes	Yes
Other controls	Yes	Yes	Yes
Household fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	960	960	960
Adjusted R²	0.529	0.528	0.528

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