Cuban Migration to the United States and the Educational Self-Selection Problem

Bibliographic Data

ID22326215
AuthorsAleida Cobas Valdés Aleida Cobas Valdés, Aleida Cobas Valdés (0000-0001-8352-726X), Ana Fernández-Sainz (0000-0001-6574-2433), Ana Fernández Sainz Ana Fernández Sainz
Year2014
Volume6
Issue1
Publication date2014-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cuban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1756-3461 • E-ISSN: 1756-347X
PublisherPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/intejcubastud.6.1.0041
OpenAlexW332872682
LanguageEN
References cited9

The aim of this article is to study the educational self-selection problem of Cuban migration to the US. For this analysis, we specify and estimate a binary logit model to analyse the observable covariates that explain migration probability. The data used in the study came from the 2010 Census of Population and Housing in the US and from the 2002 Cuba Census of Population and Housing, both data set have been provided by IPUMS (2010) and IPUMS International (2011). The results indicate that education, age and occupational covariates explain migration probability. Moreover, there is a positive educational self-selection problem, that is, those people with a higher education migrate. The principal contribution of this article is to demonstrate how high-level education increases the probability of Cubans emigrating. The positive educational self-selection problem has significant negative consequences, for example, loss of human capital

Census · Covariate · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human capital · Logit · Population · Sociology · Computer Science · Demography · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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