The DOI matches its Crossref record; 31 of the 31 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
What's Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis
Abstract
Using data gathered in 25 Mexican communities, the authors link individual acts of migration to 41 theoretically defined individual-, household-, community-, and macroeconomic-level predictors. The indicators vary through time to yield a discrete-time event-history analysis. Over the past 25 years, probabilities of first, repeat, and return migration have been linked more to the forces identified by social capital theory and the new economics of migration than to the cost-benefit calculations assumed by the neoclassical model. The authors find that Mexico-U.S. migration stems from three mutually reinforcing processes: social capital formation, human capital formation, and market consolidation.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
COLEMAN, J. (2000) · Knowledge and Social Capital · doi:10.1016/b978-0-7506-7222-1.50005-2 · Cited by 21,666
(1990) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.27-6637 · Cited by 16,594
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology.
Camic, C., Bourdieu, P., & Wacquant, L. J. D. (1993) · Contemporary Sociology · doi:10.2307/2074573 · Cited by 9,324
Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal
Massey, D. S., Arango, J., Hugo, G., Kouaouci, A., Pellegrino, A., & Taylor, J. E. (1993) · Population and Development Review · doi:10.2307/2938462 · Cited by 5,583
Self-citationSassen, S. (1991) · Cited by 5,382
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
Chiswick, B. R. (1978) · Journal of Political Economy · doi:10.1086/260717 · Cited by 2,775
Hechter, M., & Wallerstein, I. (1975) · Contemporary Sociology · doi:10.2307/2063180 · Cited by 2,590
The Costs and Returns of Human Migration
Sjaastad, L. A. (1970) · Regional Economics · doi:10.1007/978-1-349-15404-3_10 · Cited by 2,516
(1989) · Cited by 1,749
Event History Analysis : Regression for Longitudinal Event Data
Allison, P. D. (1984) · Cited by 1,711
Cited by
Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy
Woolcock, M., & Narayan, D. (2000) · The World Bank Research Observer · doi:10.1093/wbro/15.2.225 · Cited by 4,339
Migration as an Adaptation to Climate Change
McLeman, R., & Smit, B. (2006) · Climatic Change · doi:10.1007/s10584-005-9000-7 · Cited by 811
Natural disasters and population mobility in Bangladesh
Gray, C. L., & Mueller, V. (2012) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1115944109 · Cited by 687
Transnational Entrepreneurs: An Alternative Form of Immigrant Economic Adaptation
Portes, A., Guarnizo, L. E., & Haller, W. J. (2002) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/3088896 · Cited by 549
Environmental dimensions of migration
Hunter, L. M., Luna, J. K., & Norton, R. M. (2015) · Annual Review of Sociology · doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112223 · Cited by 449
Metadata
- Authors
- Massey, D. S., & Espinosa, K. E.
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1997-01
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 939-999
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
- OpenAlex
- W2059100639
- Cited by
- 1,256
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 76.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: What's Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1086/231037
- The paper
- Massey, D. S., & Espinosa, K. E. (1997). What's Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis. American Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1086/231037
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
