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Table 2 Summary statistics by German spouse

From: Does intermarriage change migrants’ preferences for the home country?

a) Male

Married

 

Before moving to Germ

Before entering SOEP

After entering SOEP

 

German spouse

Non-German spouse

German spouse

Non-German spouse

German spouse

Non-German spouse

Average intentions

0.56

0.73

0.17

0.47

0.67

0.21

0.54

0.56

0.03

(0.41)

(0.36)

 

(0.41)

(0.36)

 

(0.36)

(0.37)

 

Average remittances

0.19

0.28

0.09

0.19

0.29

0.09

0.05

0.12

0.07

(0.23)

(0.30)

 

(0.27)

(0.29)

 

(0.12)

(0.18)

 

Return migrants

0.29

0.39

0.10

0.06

0.18

0.12

0.04

0.07

0.03

(0.46)

(0.49)

 

(0.24)

(0.39)

 

(0.19)

(0.25)

 

Observations

28

617

 

98

619

 

54

138

 

b) Female

Married

 

Before moving to Germ

Before entering SOEP

After entering SOEP

 

German spouse

Non-German spouse

German spouse

Non-German spouse

German spouse

Non-German spouse

Average intentions

0.47

0.75

0.28

0.38

0.68

0.30

0.36

0.62

0.26

(0.41)

(0.35)

 

(0.41)

(0.37)

 

(0.37)

(0.37)

 

Average remittances

0.07

0.11

0.04

0.05

0.10

0.06

0.08

0.04

−0.04

(0.14)

(0.19)

 

(0.10)

(0.18)

 

(0.23)

(0.11)

 

Return migrants

0.11

0.36

0.25

0.09

0.19

0.10

0.04

0.10

0.06

(0.32)

(0.48)

 

(0.29)

(0.40)

 

(0.20)

(0.30)

 

Observations

19

692

 

44

562

 

25

119

 
  1. Note. The numbers indicate mean values, standard deviations are in parentheses. Differences are calculated by subtracting the mean value for migrants with a German spouse from that of migrants with non-German spouse. Observations with missing information on the nationality of the spouse are not included. There are also fewer observations for average intentions: for males the number of observations are 28, 612, 93, 612, 47, 130, respectively, and for females 19, 683, 40, 555, 22, 108. This is due to missing values in the variable.