Comparative Migration Studies

Table 8 Electoral participation at origin

From: The economic side of social remittances: how money and ideas circulate between Paris, Dakar, and New York

	Vote in the country of origin
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Age (years)	0.00591	0.00852*	0.00983*
Age (years)	-1.35	-2.05	-2.35
Years since arrival	0.00765	0.00308	0.00448
Years since arrival	-1.92	-0.8	-1.16
Sex: female	-0.0645	-0.0884	-0.102
(ref: male)	(-1.03)	(-1.43)	(-1.62)
Laborers	-0.146	-0.138	-0.121
Laborers	(-0.81)	(-0.72)	(-0.64)
Executive and managers	0.253	0.261	0.276*
Executive and managers	-1.9	-1.96	-2
Inactive	0.135	0.117	0.0944
Inactive	-0.69	-0.58	-0.45
Income/head	-0.000101 -	0.0000795	-0.0000882
Income/head	(-1.95)	(-1.55)	(-1.69)
Remit: yes	0.162**
(ref: no)	-2.85
Collective investment: yes		0.168**
(ref: no)		-2.71
Economic investment			0.214
In the country of origin: yes			-1.43
N (obs)	238	238	238

Note: Table reports marginal effects of the logit specification. For binary variables, the marginal effects are the differences between the two categories of the independent variable. T-statistics in parentheses (*p<0.1 **p<0.05, ***p<0.01). Sample: Senegalese-born migrants. Source: TeO survey (INSEE/INED, 2008)

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