dc.contributor.author | Teye, Joseph K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Boakye-Yiadom, Louis | |
dc.contributor.author | Asiedu, Edward | |
dc.contributor.author | Litchfield, Julie | |
dc.contributor.author | Appiah Kubi, Johnson Wilson | |
dc.contributor.author | Awumbila, Mariama | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Ghana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-12T15:52:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-12T15:52:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-11-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Teye, J.K.; Boakye-Yiadom, L.; Asiedu, E.; Litchfield, J.;
Appiah Kubi, J.W. and Awumbila, M. (2019) The Impact of Migration on the Welfare of Households Left Behind in Rural Ghana: A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation, Migrating out of Poverty Working Paper 62 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14878 | |
dc.description.abstract | Using panel data collected in 2015 and 2018, this paper employs econometric techniques to evaluate the impact of migration on the welfare of households left behind in rural Ghana. We find that poverty is an important driver of migration. Households with lower baseline food and nonfood consumption are more likely to have a member migrating over the three-year period of the study. Specifically, households with migrants had a lower level of consumption at baseline compared to non-migrant households. Using both propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-differences (DID) estimation approaches to explore migration’s welfare impact, we find no significant differences between treated and control households once initial baseline differences in consumption are accounted for. Our results suggest that migration has helped to bridge the gap in welfare between disadvantaged (low consumption) and advantaged (higher consumption) households in rural Ghana. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | DFID | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Migrating out of Poverty | |
dc.title | The Impact of Migration on the Welfare of Households Left Behind in Rural Ghana: A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation | |
dc.type | Other | |
dc.rights.holder | University of Sussex. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. | |
dc.identifier.externaluri | http://www.migratingoutofpoverty.org/files/file.php?name=wp62-teye-et-al-2019-the-impact-of-migration-on-the-welfare-of-households-left-behind-in-rural-ghana.pdf&site=354 | |