TY - JOUR
T1 - The limits to cumulative causation
T2 - International migration from Mexican urban areas
AU - Fussell, Elizabeth
AU - Massey, Douglas S.
PY - 2004/2
Y1 - 2004/2
N2 - We present theoretical arguments and empirical research to suggest that the principal mechanisms of cumulative causation do not function in large urban settings. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project, we found evidence of cumulative causation in small cities, rural towns and villages, but not in large urban areas. With event-history models, we found little positive effect of community-level social capital and a strong deterrent effect of urban labor markets on the likelihood of first and later U.S. trips for residents of urban areas in Mexico, suggesting that the social process of migration from urban areas is distinct from that in the more widely studied rural migrant-sending communities of Mexico.
AB - We present theoretical arguments and empirical research to suggest that the principal mechanisms of cumulative causation do not function in large urban settings. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project, we found evidence of cumulative causation in small cities, rural towns and villages, but not in large urban areas. With event-history models, we found little positive effect of community-level social capital and a strong deterrent effect of urban labor markets on the likelihood of first and later U.S. trips for residents of urban areas in Mexico, suggesting that the social process of migration from urban areas is distinct from that in the more widely studied rural migrant-sending communities of Mexico.
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U2 - 10.1353/dem.2004.0003
DO - 10.1353/dem.2004.0003
M3 - Article
C2 - 15074129
AN - SCOPUS:1842744432
SN - 0070-3370
VL - 41
SP - 151
EP - 171
JO - Demography
JF - Demography
IS - 1
ER -