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

Table 9 Sensitivity of results of impact of having a new migrant on housing quality index using different specifications to construct index, weighted least squares

	Dependent variable: housing quality index
	Exclude specific item from housing quality index construction:
	Number of rooms	Dwelling ownership	Bathroom	Toilet	Drinking water	Floor material	Wall material
New migrant * 2015	0.019	− 0.017	− 0.017	− 0.015	− 0.020	− 0.013	− 0.009
	(0.014)	(0.012)	(0.012)	(0.011)	(0.015)	(0.009)	(0.008)
Household fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Entropy balancing weights	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Other controls	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	960	960	960	960	960	960	960
Adjusted R²	0.515	0.473	0.524	0.47	0.462	0.544	0.485
Number of clusters	93	93	93	93	93	93	93

Notes: Significance levels *10%, **5%, and ***1%. Fixed effects estimator. S.E. clustered at community level; each column presents the result of estimating the main model with the outcome variable being the housing quality index excluding one item respectively. 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