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

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            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.

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            Journal
            10.13169
            intejcubastud
            International Journal of Cuban Studies
            Pluto Journals
            17563461
            1756347X
            Spring 2014
            : 6
            : 1
            : 41-54
            Affiliations
            University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain
            Article
            intejcubastud.6.1.0041
            10.13169/intejcubastud.6.1.0041
            af83109a-b192-433d-876c-d5697b2fa3f1
            © International Institute for the Study of Cuba

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            Literary studies,Arts,Social & Behavioral Sciences,History,Cultural studies,Economics
            self-selection,Cuba,binary logit model,education,migration

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