Social Capital and International Migration from Latin America

Table 3

Effects of different forms of capital on the probability that a male household head from five Latin American societies took a first trip to the United States 1965-survey date.

Independent variables	Mexico	Dominican Republic	Nicaragua	Costa Rica	Peru
Forms of capital
Individual social capital
Parent a U.S. migrant	0.580***	1.221**	1.900***	1.233**	—
U.S. migrant siblings	0.875***	1.158***	1.538***	0.563*	1.015
Wife a U.S. migrant	0.697***	2.182***	1.961***	1.535**	—
U.S. migrant children	0.399**	—	−0.420	0.381	—
Community social capital
Percent U.S. migrants	0.031***	0.012	0.055**	0.145***	0.290
Individual human capital
Education	−0.035***	0.044	0.105***	0.034	−0.082
Years of LF experience	0.019***	0.012	0.012	0.062*	−0.011
Skilled occupation	−0.647***	0.309	−0.780*	−0.470	0.620
Physical capital
Land	−0.030	0.668	−0.312	−0.172	—
Home	−0.143**	−0.328	0.108	−0.191	−1.028
Business	−0.446***	−0.242	0.269	0.145	—
Control variables
Community size
Metro area	−0.540***	−0.010	−0.638+	−2.307***	—
Demographic background
Age	−0.045***	0.160	0.101	−0.165*	0.158
Age squared	−0.0007***	−0.003+	−0.0015+	0.001	−0.001
Married or in union	−0.066	−0.005	0.451	0.685**	−0.058
No. children <18	0.0332**	−0.029	−0.146+	−0.007	−0.668
Period
<1980	—	—	—	—	—
1980–1989	0.012	0.425	0.882**	0.452+	−0.554
1990–1995	-0.029	−0.242	−0.403	−0.33	0.113
1996+	0.409***	−0.967	−0.699	−1.343**	−0.930
Intercept	−2.866***	−8.635***	−9.323***	−2.989**	−10.65**
Likelihood ratio	4,939.86***	68.27***	175.86***	271.32***	9.31
Somer’s D	0.596	0.593	0.568	0.677	0.139
Person years observed	284,751	15,754	32,544	28,994	15,009