. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 11.

Published in final edited form as: Am Econ Rev. 2010 May;100(2):205–208. doi: 10.1257/aer.100.2.205

Table 1.

Parental Descriptive Statistics by Migration Status of Children

	No Child in US		Child in US
	Mean	SE	Mean	SE	Difference
Poor Health Quality^a	0.14	0.00	0.21	0.01	−0.07 ^***
Poor Physical Health^b	0.05	0.00	0.06	0.01	−0.01 ^*
Poor Mental Health^c	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 ^***
Marrie^d	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

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

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

Poor 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

Financial variables are in thousands of 2002 pesos