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. 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 2.

Parental Health and Child Migration, Probit Estimation

(1)
Poor Health
Qualityabc
(2)
Poor Physical
Healthabc
(3)
Poor Mental
Healthabc
Migrant Child in U.S. coefficient 0.153 0.105 0.082
[0.046]*** [0.063]* [0.041]**
Marginal Effect 0.036 0.011 0.032
[0.011]*** [0.007] [0.016]**
Observed Probability 0.157 0.053 0.539
Predicted Prob. (at mean of Xs) 0.139 0.049 0.541
Observations 6730 6730 6730

Notes: See section II for other control variables included in the model Robust standard errors in brackets

*

Significant at 10 percent;

**

Significant at 5 percent;

***

Significant at 1 percent

abc

See notes below Table 1 for description of dependent variables