Table 5:

Migration effect: Fixed effects regression results for the impact of migration on child health, by reason for migration 2008-2013 MHM/MLSFH

	Model 1- Child health		Model 2- Children characteristics		Model 3- Children, mothers, households
	Coef.	95% CI	Coef.	95% CI	Coef.	95% CI
Children’s characteristics
Reason for migration
Non-migrant (reference)	----	----	----	----	----	----
Work-related	−0.27	−0.286-0.630	−0.27	−0.287-0.669	0.04	−0.221-0.526
Marriage-related	−0.41	−0.766- −0.056	−0.39	−0.745- −0.039	−0.19	−0.532-0.154
Other reason	0.17	−0.717-0.181	0.19	−0.705-0.169	0.15	−0.405-0.483
Level of education
None (reference)			----	----	----	----
Primary			0.15	−0.155-0.456	0.13	−0.168-0.421
Secondary			−0.06	−0.595-0.469	0.22	−0.268-0.713
Slept in household last night			−0.09	−0.357-0.184	−0.06	−0.339-0.219
Mother characteristics
Mother’s health					0.44	0.302-0.567
Number of children					−0.10	−0.231-0.040
Mother’s marital status
Currently married (reference)					----	----
Divorced/separated					−0.05	−0.678-0.582
Widowed					−0.16	−0.738-0.409
Mother’s education
None (reference)					----	----
Primary					0.03	−0.272-0.332
Secondary or higher					−0.33	−0.971-0.316
Mother HIV infected					−0.26	−0.811-0.299
Household characteristics
Household wealth					−0.04	−0.135-0.048
Father co-resides in household					0.14	−0.403-0.684
Survey wave/year	0.66	0.485-0.837	0.62	0.428-0.811	0.39	0.157-0.613
N =	757 children, 387 mothers/households

Notes: standard errors are clustered by mother/household; instances where 95% CIs do not overlap with 1 are in bold font. Other measures such as the number of people who provide assistance (financial and non-financial) to the mother, and number of lifetime marriages were not associated with the outcome and were dropped from the final analyses. Sex is dropped from fixed effects regression because it is time-invariant; age (for mother and child) is also dropped because there is no variation across respondents in fixed effects regression.