Table 5 Estimates of the determinants of the hazard of returning to Mexico for the first migration sample

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

First migration sample
Variable/covariate	Hazard ratio	S.E.	z-stat	P value
Age	1.0063	0.0816	1.79	0.073
Married MX	1.1371	0.1828	−0.49	0.621
Married US	0.9049	0.0317	3.46	0.001
Children	1.1042	0.0798	0.88	0.377
Agricultural	1.0683	0.0975	−1.44	0.149
Professional	0.8470	0.0733	−1.02	0.308
Manufacturing	0.9222	0.0712	−1.77	0.076
Unskilled	0.8640	0.0670	−1.8	0.072
Self-employed	0.8706	0.1795	−0.26	0.793
Mother US	0.9516	0.0564	3.31	0.001
Father US	1.1726	0.0592	3.17	0.002
Property MX	1.1735	0.0472	−4.23	0.000
Urban	0.7721	0.0480	−2.06	0.039
Elementary	0.8954	0.0962	−0.53	0.599
Some middle education	0.9481	0.0672	−1.79	0.074
Middle education	0.8713	0.1167	−0.77	0.443
Some high school	0.9059	0.1021	−0.76	0.450
High school	0.9195	0.1620	1.31	0.189
Some college education	1.1950	0.2455	3.34	0.001
College education	1.6458	0.4245	2.42	0.016
Some grad education	1.7796	0.0582	5.36	0.000
Paisanos	1.2770	0.0171	−1.61	0.107
Exp. wage^a	0.9721	0.0404	−1.94	0.052
Distance^b	0.9180	0.0076	1.56	0.119
Apprehension rate	1.0118	0.0048	−3.89	0.000
Year migration	0.9812	0.0943	0.99	0.320
IRCA	1.0899	0.1261	2.64	0.008
Year 1986	1.2931	0.2159	4.01	0.000
Year 1990	1.6760	0.0561	1.64	0.100
Saving1^a	1.0884	0.0590	0.6	0.547
Saving2^a	1.0349	0.0436	−1.9	0.057
Remittances	0.9133	0.0816	1.79	0.073
Log-likelihood				−14,747
Number of observations				2375
Number of failures				2375

^aSeries deflated by the US consumer index (CPI)
^bNormalized by 1000 miles

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