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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2022 Mar 30;48(3):767–793. doi: 10.1111/padr.12482

TABLE 2.

Logistic regression models of lifetime migration, by region

East and Southern Africa West and Central Africa South America Central America and the
Caribbean
Southeast Asia
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5
β (SE) β (SE) β (SE) β (SE) β (SE)
Climate anomalies, ages −1 to 4
Temperature −0.142 (0.091) −0.104 + (0.054) 0.007 (0.016) −0.007 (0.036) 0.003 (0.039)
Temperature2 −0.134 ** (0.048) −0.055 (0.035) 0.025 + (0.013) −0.012 (0.014) 0.019 (0.029)
Rainfall −0.020 * (0.009) 0.129 ** (0.041) −0.010 (0.014) 0.011 (0.010) 0.026 (0.018)
Rainfall2 0.003 (0.009) 0.062 *** (0.014) −0.004 (0.008) 0.005 (0.005) 0.025 *** (0.007)
Controls
Age 0.002 (0.002) −0.008 (0.006) 0.020 *** (0.001) 0.026 *** (0.002) −0.008 + (0.004)
Sex = female −0.187 *** (0.033) −0.119 *** (0.018) −0.024 * (0.010) 0.093 *** (0.013) −0.121 *** (0.017)
Primary school = yes 0.748 *** (0.061) 0.844 *** (0.093) 0.264 *** (0.047) 0.502 *** (0.057) 0.653 *** (0.046)
Decade fixed effects Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Birthplace fixed effects Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Pseudo R2 0.114 0.092 0.090 0.115 0.077
Joint test, temperature 13.27** 4.79+ 8.77* 1.10 1.43
Joint test, rainfall 4.94+ 21.09*** 0.48 2.81 12.23**
Joint test, all climate variables 28.57*** 28.86*** 10.08* 2.94 13.83**
+

p<0.10

*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01

Note: Standard errors clustered on birth province.