Staying or Leaving? Analyzing the Rationality of Rural-Urban Migration Associated with Farm Income of Staying Households: A Case Study from Southern Ethiopia
Table 1
Stage 1 estimation result for the determinants of labor input (for comparison of both temporary and permanent migrant sending households).
= + + + + Number of Obs. = 212 HHs
Comparison 1: temporary migrant sending against nonmigrant sending households
Adj.
-stat.
Const.
Coeff.
-stat.
Coeff.
-stat.
Coeff.
-stat.
Coeff.
-stat.
0.758
(3,208) = 221.7***
−271.7*** (88.23)
−3.08
690.8*** (29.51)
23.41
−654.8*** (35.89)
−18.24
223.2 (211.23)
1.06
= + + + + Number of Obs. = 177 HHs
Comparison 2: permanent migrant sending against nonmigrant sending households
Adj.
-stat.
Const.
Coeff.
-stat.
Coeff.
-stat.
Coeff.
-stat.
Coeff.
-stat.
0.736
(3,173) = 160.6***
−332.2*** (88.69)
−3.75
681.8*** (33.37)
20.43
−631.2*** (40.28)
−15.67
271.9 (234.37)
1.16
refers to significant at 10% (); **refers to significant at 5% () and ***refers to significance at 1% (). Robust standard errors are found in parenthesis, source: author’s estimation.
