Social Capital and International Migration from Latin America

Table 4

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.

Independent variables	No controls for distance		Controlling for distance
	𝐵	SE	𝐵	SE
Forms of capital
Individual social capital
Parent a U.S. migrant	0.584*	0.045	0.594***	0.046
U.S. migrant siblings	0.901***	0.038	0.898***	0.038
Wife a U.S. migrant	0.774***	0.096	0.744***	0.097
U.S. migrant children	0.304*	0.120	0.308*	0.121
Community social capital
Prop. U.S. migrants in community	0.030***	0.001	0.030***	0.001
Individual human capital
Education	−0.026***	0.004	−0.027***	0.005
Years of labor force experience	0.021***	0.005	0.022***	0.005
Skilled occupation at home	−0.582***	0.085	−0.603***	0.087
Physical capital
Land	−0.038	0.060	−0.044	0.061
Home	−0.136**	0.043	−0.151***	0.043
Business	−0.355***	0.065	−0.365***	0.066
Key control
Cost of migration
Natural log of distance to US	—	—	−0.392***	0.052
Other controls
Community size
Metro area	−0.569***	0.055	−0.692***	0.058
Town or city	—	—	—	—
Rural village	0.051	0.037	0.057	0.037
Country of origin
Mexico	—	—	—	—
Dominican republic	−1.336***	0.144	−1.610***	0.158
Costa rica	−0.306***	0.087	−0.229*	0.094
Nicaragua	−0.997***	0.108	−1.051***	0.112
Peru	−2.296***	0.410	−1.919***	0.413
Demographic background
Age	−0.052***	0.012	−0.053	0.013
Age squared	−0.001**	0.000	−0.0005**	0.000
Married or in consensual union	−0.016	0.046	−0.006	0.046
Number of children under 18	0.022***	0.011	0.026*	0.011
Period
Before 1980	—	—	—	—
1980–1989	0.036	0.040	0.026	0.040
1990–1995	−0.033	0.055	−0.050	0.056
After 1996	0.297***	0.067	0.304***	0.068
Intercept	−2.926***	0.184	0.100	0.447
Likelihood ratio	6,004.88***		6,017.00***
Somer’s D	0.626		0.629
Person years	377,052		376,957