Migration of Hispanic Youth and Poverty Status: A Logit Analysis.

This research focuses on the relationship between poverty and the migration of Hispanic youth [within the United States]. Individual- and county-level variables are incorporated into a logit analysis. An important finding is that Hispanic youth who are poor have higher ratios of migration than nonpoor Hispanic youth. Also Hispanic youth residing in counties with higher rates of poverty are more likely to migrate than those living in more prosperous counties. However these relationships change when multilevel interactions between individual and contextual variables are considered. (EXCERPT)