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Table 2 Logistic regression for individual voting and voting gaps between ethnic and nativity groups

From: The integrative force of political institutions? Direct democracy and voter turnout across ethnic and nativity groups

 

Vote (all respondents)

M1 Asian nativity

M2 Hispanic nativity

Individual covariates

 Asian nativity (Ref.cat: 3rd gen.d)

  1st. gen. Asian

−0.66 (0.02)a

  2nd gen. Asian

−0.18 (0.03)a

 Hispanic nativity (Ref.cat: 3rd gen.d)

  1st. gen. Hispanic

−0.25 (0.02)a

  2nd gen. Hispanic

−0.13 (0.02)a

 Age

0.03 (0.00)a

0.03 (0.00)a

 Gender (male)

−0.05 (0.01)a

−0.05 (0.01)a

 Marital status (Ref.cat: divorced)

  Married

0.43 (0.01)a

0.42 (0.01)a

  Single

0.23 (0.01)a

0.22 (0.01)a

  Separated

−0.07 (0.02)a

−0.06 (0.02)b

  Widowed

−0.07 (0.02)a

−0.08 (0.01)a

 Education (Ref.cat: no/primary educ.)

  Secondary. educ.

0.60 (0.01)a

0.59 (0.01)a

  Tertiary educ.

1.12 (0.01)a

1.10 (0.01)a

 Labor force

0.17 (0.01)a

0.17 (0.01)a

 Black

0.21 (0.01)a

0.21 (0.01)a

State covariates

 Political ideology

−0.01 (0.00)a

−0.02 (0.00)a

 Organizational density

0.04 (0.02)c

0.05 (0.02)c

 Unemployment

0.02 (0.01)c

0.02 (0.01)b

 GDP (log)

0.12 (0.14)

0.12 (0.14)

 Urbanization

−0.01 (0.00)

−0.01 (0.00)

 Foreign-born share

−0.01 (0.00)

0.00 (0.00)

State FEs

yes

yes

Year FEs

yes

yes

AIC

254,189

259,089

N

216,315

220,598

  1. Logistic regression coefficients (robust standard errors clustered by state in parentheses). All models include state and year fixed effects (states = 50, years = midterm elections 2002, 2006, 2010). Significance codes: 0.001 < a, 0.01 < b, 0.05 < c