Social Capital and International Migration from Latin America

Table 5

Event history models of 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	Main effects only		With interactions
	𝐵	SE	𝐵	SE
Forms of capital
Individual social capital
Social capital index	0.948***	0.031	−0.428	0.744
Community social capital
Prop. U.S. migrants in community	0.030***	0.001	0.187***	0.040
Individual human capital
Human capital index	−0.799***	0.082	−10.302***	1.866
Physical capital
Land	−0.049	0.061	−0.055	0.061
Home	−0.120**	0.043	−0.115**	0.043
Business	−0.358***	0.066	−0.371***	0.066
Key control
Cost of migration
Natural log of distance	−0.383***	0.053	−0.514***	0.103
Interactions
Individual social capital × log distance	—	—	0.181+	0.097
Prop. migrants × log distance	—	—	−0.020***	0.005
Individual human capital × log distance	—	—	1.238***	0.242
Other controls
Community size
Metro area	−0.713***	0.058	−0.704***	0.058
Town or city	—	—	—	—
Rural village	0.072+	0.037	0.066+	0.037
Country of origin
Mexico	—	—	—	—
Dominican republic	−1.655***	0.157	−1.585***	0.159
Costa Rica	−0.232*	0.093	−0.312**	0.095
Nicaragua	−1.077***	0.111	−1.069***	0.112
Peru	−2.007***	0.412	−2.353***	0.418
Demographic background
Age	−0.004	0.011	−0.003	0.012
Age squared	−0.001***	0.000	−0.001***	0.000
Married or in consensual union	0.0168	0.046	0.018	0.046
Number of children under 18	0.027*	0.011	0.026*	0.011
Period
Before 1980	—	—	—	—
1980–1989	0.088*	0.039	0.098*	0.039
1990–1995	0.057	0.052	0.072	0.052
After 1996	0.448***	0.062	0.468***	0.062
Intercept	−0.752+	0.440	0.239	0.804
Likelihood ratio	5,917.27***		5,962.65***
Somer’s D	0.626		0.627
Person years	376,957		376,957