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Table 7 Impact of Yigong-daizhen project on migrant (by income quartiles)

From: Do public work schemes deter or encourage outmigration? Empirical evidence from China

 

Dependent variable: number of migrant labor (person)

DID (1)

DID (2)

DID (3)

DID (4)

 

Lowest quartile by net income in 1997 (N = 1214)

After *Yigong-daizhen

1.91

0.81

−4.50

−4.09

 

(5.45)

(5.63)

(5.97)

(5.87)

 

Second lowest quartile by net income in 1997 (N = 1236)

After *Yigong-daizhen

33.63**

32.83**

25.87

33.85**

 

(13.52)

(13.40)

(15.86)

(15.86)

 

Second highest quartile by net income in 1997 (N = 1200)

After *Yigong-daizhen

79.70***

74.52***

38.08**

57.22***

 

(15.69)

(15.74)

(16.29)

(15.29)

 

Highest quartile by net income in 1997 (N = 1206)

After *Yigong-daizhen

48.83**

48.67**

46.76**

48.09**

 

(23.80)

(22.15)

(21.05)

(21.51)

Control for:

    

Two main effects for Diff-in-Diff

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Village level controls

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Types of project

No

No

Yes

Yes

Province FE

No

No

No

Yes

  1. Notes. ***denotes significant at the level 0.01 level; **denotes significant at the 0.05 level; *denotes significant at the 0.1 level. Robust clustered standard errors at the village level are reported in the parentheses. The specifications are the same as reported in Table 6.