Charles Ackah|Denis Medvedev
Internal migration in Ghana: determinants and welfare impacts
University of Ghana|World Bank Group
purpose using recently compiled dataset migration remittances ghana purpose paper estimate determinants individuals likelihood internal migrant relationship internal migration welfare designmethodologyapproach paper uses treatment regression techniques assess characteristics ghanaian migrants determinants migration impact household welfare findings paper finds likelihood migrate determined combination individual pull communitylevel push characteristics probability migration higher younger educated individuals communities higher levels literacy higher rates subsidized medical care better access water sanitation less likely produce migrants found households migrants tend better similar households without migrants even controlling fact households migrants nonrandom sample ghanaians however positive relationship true households least one migrant urban areas research limitationsimplications clearly authors access panel data would able something nice clean theoretical econometric grounds originalityvalue paper adds ghana migration literature offering novel empirical assessment characteristics ghanaian migrants determinants migration impact household welfare drawing recentlyassembled nationallyrepresentative sample ghanaian households