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Interestingly, Table 5 shows that in our sample, return migration is much more important for the non-participating group than for the participating group between 2002 and 2008.
The main identification condition for the estimation of the SLCP effect is that there are no other shocks than the new policy that may affect the differential migration decision of the participating group relative to the non-participating group.
We first use a logit model to estimate the propensity score for each observation in the participant and the non-participant groups; we then match individuals in the non-participating group to individuals in the participating group who have similar propensity scores; and we compare the outcome indicator between the two groups16.
There were significantly less fathers in the participating group than in the non-participating group (p <.01).
11As shown in Table 3, the propensity to migrate in 2008 is significantly higher in the participating group (28.3percentt) compared to the non-participating group (17.6percentt).
Finally, we restrict our sample of individuals to the working-age population (aged between 16 and 65) so that we have 1,000 individuals (300 households) in the non-participating group and 1,673 individuals (471 households) in the participating group.
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On the other hand, 72percentt in the non-participating group declared being willing to participate.
The interpretation of a study's generalisability can alter depending on which non-participating group is compared with participants.
In total, 87% of the included participants and 66% in the non-participating group reported to have good health.
Characteristics of children and parents are presented in Table 2. Diagnoses were equally distributed between the participating and non-participating groups, except for CDH, which was overrepresented in the non-participating group due to early deaths (10 out of 13 deaths).
Hence, the reversed migration shares observed in Table 4 are derived from a combination of higher return migration rates and lower new migration rates for the non-participating group.
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