Journal of Population Economics (2019) 32:1171–1203 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-019-00734-9 ORIGINAL PAPER International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco Michele Tuccio 1 · Jackline Wahba 2 · Bachir Hamdouch 3 Received: 11 May 2017 / Accepted: 3 April 2019 / Published online: 18 May 2019 © The Author(s) 2019 Abstract This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of polit- ical and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, this paper explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different politi- cal preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families. Once controlling for the double selection into emigration and return migration, the findings suggest that hav- ing a returnee in the household increases the demand for political and social change. This result is driven by returnees mostly from Western European countries, who were exposed to more democratic norms in the destination. However, we find a negative impact of having a current migrant on the willingness of the left-behind households to change. This result is driven by migrants to non-Western countries, where the quality of political and social institutions is lower. Our results are robust to also controlling for destination selectivity. Keywords International migration · Political change · Transfer of norms · Social remittances · Morocco JEL Classification D72 · F22 · O15 · O55 Responsible editor: Klaus F. Zimmermann Jackline Wahba [email protected] Michele Tuccio [email protected] Bachir Hamdouch [email protected] 1 UMR DIAL, LEDa, IRD-Universit´ e Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France 2 University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 3 INSEA-University Mohammed V Agdal, Rabat, Morocco
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