What makes you go back home? Determinants of the duration of migration of Mexican immigrants in the United States

Table 3 Summary statistics

Variable characteristic	Variable name	Definition	First migration sample		Last migration sample
Variable characteristic	Variable name	Definition	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.
Destination	Paisanos	1 if members same community reside same destination	0.634	0.482	0.637	0.481
Destination	Exp. wage^a	Expected wage in destination	9.858	1.211	9.531	1.361
Crossing border costs	Distance^b	Distance in miles from origin to destination community	1.572	0.484	1.611	0.475
Crossing border costs	Apprehension rate	Probability of apprehension	0.315	0.048	0.288	0.057
Migration Policy	Year migration	Year they migrated to USA	1981	7.756	1986	7.942
	IRCA	1 if legalized by IRCA 1986	0.928	0.259	0.158	0.364
	Year 1986	1 if crossed border after 1986	0.174	0.379	0.234	0.423
	Year 1990	1 if crossed border after 1990	0.129	0.335	0.364	0.481
Savings	Saving1^a	1 if saved from 500 to 2500 USD during trip	0.261	0.440	0.258	0.437
	Saving2^a	1 if saved more than 2500 USD during trip	0.186	0.389	0.187	0.390
	Remittances	1 if sent remittances to Mexico while in USA	0.661	0.473	0.657	0.475