Table 1.

Parental Descriptive Statistics by Migration Status of Children

	No Child in US		Child in US
	Mean	SE	Mean	SE	Difference
Poor Health Qualitya	0.14	0.00	0.21	0.01	−0.07 ***
Poor Physical Healthb	0.05	0.00	0.06	0.01	−0.01 *
Poor Mental Healthc	0.52	0.01	0.60	0.01	−0.07 ***
Female	0.54	0.01	0.58	0.01	−0.03 **
Age	61.27	0.13	62.86	0.23	-1.60 ***
Education (years)	5.23	0.06	3.43	0.09	1.81 ***
Married	0.62	0.01	0.62	0.01	0.00
Assets d	119.59	6.35	114.58	14.27	5.01
Monthly Income d	8.39	1.63	3.49	1.07	4.91 **
Right to Medical Services	0.69	0.01	0.55	0.01	0.14 ***
Children	4.86	0.04	6.96	0.07	-2.09 ***
Grandchildren	8.74	0.13	14.44	0.29	-5.70 ***
More Urban Area (100,000 ppl +)	0.74	0.01	0.53	0.01	0.22 ***
Number of Observations	52 47		14 83

^*Significant at 10 percent;

^**Significant at 5 percent;

^***Significant at 1 percent

^aPoor Health Quality is self-reported indicator variable: 1 = poor health; 0 = fair, good, very good, or excellent health

^bPoor Physical Health is an indicator for whether the respondent has had a stroke or heart attack

^cPoor Mental Health is an indicator for whether the respondent reports having felt any of the following conditions the majority of the time in the past week: depression, loneliness, sadness

^dFinancial variables are in thousands of 2002 pesos