Rural-Urban Labor Migration, Remittances, and Its Effect on Migrant-Sending Farm Households: Northwest Ethiopia

Table 4

Parameter estimation of the three-stage least square regression model.

Variable	Coefficient	Std. error	t-statistic	Prob.
Agri-prod
Rural-urban migration	0.3634962	0.3109939	1.17	0.242
Amt of remit	0.0308621	0.0521634	2.59	0.014
Age	0.0001046	0.0011102	0.09	0.925
Edu-level	0.0045924	0.0019496	0.42	0.671
Fam-size	0.0196487	0.0175491	1.12	0.263
Cult-land	0.1635392	0.0312445	5.23	0.000
Liv-stock	0.0342955	0.0148529	2.31	0.021
Cer-access	−0.007219	0.0560591	−0.13	0.898
Ext-service	0.0896	0.232103	2.39	0.021
Irrigation	0.0188608	0.0869364	0.22	0.828
Agri-pest	−0.1084733	0.2478107	−2.44	0.017
_Cons	9.341321	0.984844	9.49	0.000
Rural-urban migration
Agri-prod	1.403328	0.6005912	2.34	0.019
Sex	0.0037719	0.045958	0.08	0.935
Num-stu	0.0497263	0.0433169	1.15	0.251
Fam-size	−0.0347043	0.0367421	−0.94	0.345
Cult-land	−0.2318789	0.1082901	−2.14	0.032
Liv-stock	−0.0544232	0.0244454	−2.23	0.026
_Cons	−12.51024	6.259922	−2.00	0.046
Amt of remit
Rural-urban migration	5.423236	1.241401	4.37	0.000
Livestock	0.0293703	0.0985551	0.30	0.766
Farm size	0.0754538	0.1640279	0.46	0.646
Migrants’ education	−0.2286891	0.2728889	−0.84	0.402
Num-stu	0.6959269	0.2099912	3.31	0.001
_Cons	0.0243562	3.598579	0.01	0.995

^,1% and 5% level of significance, respectively.