Social Capital and International Migration from Latin America

Table 6

Event history models of the probability that a male household head from five Latin American societies took an additional 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	−0.098***	0.018	1.581***	0.377
Community social capital
Prop. U.S. migrants in community	0.012***	0.001	0.104***	0.028
Individual human capital
Human capital index	−0.006***	0.001	0.073*	0.035
Migration specific human capital
Prior U.S. experience	−0.176***	0.004	−0.175***	0.004
Number of prior U.S. trips	0.662***	0.008	0.663***	0.008
Documented	0.552***	0.040	0.547***	0.041
Physical capital
Land	0.102**	0.034	0.104**	0.034
Home	0.064*	0.027	0.070*	0.027
Business	−0.166***	0.039	−0.168***	0.039
Key control
Cost of migration
Natural log of distance	−0.055	0.037	0.349***	0.080
Interactions
Individual social capital × log distance	—	—	−0.218***	0.049
Prop. migrants × log distance	—	—	−0.012**	0.004
Individual human capital × log distance	—	—	−0.010*	0.004
Other controls
Community size
Metro area	−0.460***	0.050	−0.440***	0.050
Town or city	—	—	—	—
Rural village	0.084**	0.027	0.090***	0.027
Country of origin
Mexico	—	—	—	—
Dominican republic	−0.669***	0.178	−0.665***	0.178
Costa rica	−0.239**	0.090	−0.304***	0.091
Nicaragua	−0.982***	0.178	−1.001***	0.178
Peru	0.421	0.429	0.059	0.434
Demographic background
Age	−0.051***	0.008	−0.050***	0.008
Age squared	−0.00001	0.000	−0.00002	0.000
Married or in consensual union	0.251***	0.036	0.250***	0.036
Number of children under 18	0.004	0.007	0.003	0.007
Period
Before 1980	—	—	—	—
1980–1989	0.101***	0.030	0.104***	0.030
1990–1995	−0.102**	0.036	−0.105**	0.036
After 1996	0.082+	0.042	0.088*	0.042
Intercept	−0.176	0.320	−3.304***	0.634
Likelihood ratio	25,289.31***		25,340.73***
Somer’s D	0.742		0.743
Person years	76,275		76,275