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Table 8 Impact of Yigong-daizhen project on migrant (hypothesis tests on productivity improvement and cost reduction)

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

 

Dependent variable: number of migrant labor (person)

OLS (1)

OLS (2)

OLS (3)

OLS (4)

 

Panel A: Productivity improvement

After *Yigong-daizhen *Productivity improvement

−10.14

8.02

11.97

22.74

 

(33.85)

(28.18)

(27.89)

(25.92)

 

Panel B: Cost reduction

After *Yigong-daizhen *Costs reduction

62.20*

58.17**

58.41**

44.19**

 

(32.93)

(28.60)

(28.93)

(27.04)

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

N

4858

4858

4858

4858

  1. Notes.**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.