Abstract

CUECUECHA MENDOZA, Alfredo  and  LEAL GONZALEZ, Alberto Amador. Return Migration and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Municipalities in the Sierra Norte de Puebla. Migr. Inter [online]. 2025, vol.16, e2914.  Epub Apr 04, 2025. ISSN 2594-0279.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.2914.

A representative survey of 281 maize and coffee producers from four municipalities in Puebla is used to estimate the effect of return migration on productivity, average costs, and profit margins. Three estimation techniques are employed: logarithmic, semi-parametric, and non-parametric. In general, the results show higher productivity on producers with returnees, as well as lower costs and profit margins for returnees. Analysis on subsamples reveals the importance of market orientation, coffee cultivation, the cultivation of small areas, and the reception of subsidies. In all these cases the results on productivity and costs are confirmed, and higher profit margins are founded. It is also shown the importance of unobserved factors particularly for average costs. The main limitation of these results is that they are only representative of the municipalities and crops studied.

Keywords : 1. agricultural productivity; 2. return migration; 3. propensity score matching; 4. Puebla; 5. Mexico.

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