Staying or Leaving? Analyzing the Rationality of Rural-Urban Migration Associated with Farm Income of Staying Households: A Case Study from Southern Ethiopia
Table 2
Stage 1 estimation result for the determinants of capital stock.
= + + + MC + Number of Obs. = 212 HHs
Comparison 1: nonmigrant sending against temporary migrant sending households
Adj.
-stat.
MC
Const.
Coeff.
-stat.
Coeff.
-stat.
Coeff.
-stat.
Coeff.
-stat.
0.342
(3,208) = 34.48***
0.23*** (0.06)
3.86
0.09*** (0.011)
8.39
−0.21 (0.58)
−0.36
432.4** (173.53)
2.49
= + + + MC + Number of Obs. = 177 HHs
Comparison 2: nonmigrant sending against permanent migrant sending households
Adj.
-stat
MC
Const.
Coeff.
-stat
Coeff.
-stat
Coeff.
-stat
Coeff.
-stat
0.274
(3,173) = 21.77***
0.08 (0.057)
1.40
0.09*** (0.011)
7.82
−0.20 (0.616)
−0.33
621.6*** (177.11)
3.51
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.
