Return Migration to Mexico: Does Health Matter?
Return Migration to Mexico: Does Health Matter?
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DOI：
10.1007/s13524-015-0429-7
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发表时间：
2015-12-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Teruel, Graciela
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作者：
Arenas, Erika;Goldman, Noreen;Teruel, Graciela
我们使用三轮墨西哥家庭生活调查的数据来研究2005-2012年期间返回墨西哥的美国移民的健康状况是否比留在美国的移民更差。尽管人口统计学家对健康相关的选择有着广泛的兴趣，但在美国的文献中，这一直是一个被忽视的研究领域。墨西哥移民，迄今为止的少数结果是矛盾和不确定的。使用五个自我报告的健康变量收集，而移民居住在美国和随后的移民历史，我们发现直接的证据，更高的概率返回移民墨西哥移民健康状况不佳，以及较低的概率返回移民健康状况改善。这些研究结果是强大的，包括潜在的混杂因素，反映了移民的人口特征，经济状况，家庭关系，来源和目的地的特点。我们预计，在未来十年中，鉴于最近墨西哥医疗保险的覆盖面扩大，健康可能会成为移民决定返回墨西哥的一个更加突出的问题。
We use data from three rounds of the Mexican Family Life Survey to examine whether migrants in the United States returning to Mexico in the period 2005-2012 have worse health than those remaining in the United States. Despite extensive interest by demographers in health-related selection, this has been a neglected area of study in the literature on U.S.-Mexico migration, and the few results to date have been contradictory and inconclusive. Using five self-reported health variables collected while migrants resided in the United States and subsequent migration history, we find direct evidence of higher probabilities of return migration for Mexican migrants in poor health as well as lower probabilities of return for migrants with improving health. These findings are robust to the inclusion of potential confounders reflecting the migrants' demographic characteristics, economic situation, family ties, and origin and destination characteristics. We anticipate that in the coming decade, health may become an even more salient issue in migrants' decisions about returning to Mexico, given the recent expansion in access to health insurance in Mexico.