Developmental Idealism and Migration: Theorizing their Relationship and an Empirical Example from Nepal

In addition, Kavas (2015) and Kavas and Thornton (2013) have argued that the introduction and strong governmental endorsement of DI in Turkey facilitated the secularization of the country, the adoption of the Gregorian calendar and Latin alphabet, and the spread of western European clothing styles. [...] Consequently, since some of the DI questions were initially asked in the first follow-up, we limited our analyses to people interviewed at both the baseline and the first follow-up and began the analysis of migration in the first month after the first follow-up survey. [...] The first four rows of Table 4 report the estimated effects of the DI scales that we discussed earlier as “original” DI dimensions while the second four rows of the table report the estimated effects of the DI scales that we discussed earlier as “new” DI dimensions. [...] We report similar effects of four scales dealing with “new” DI; row 5 indicates the effects of the “new” DI scale of beliefs about development causing family change, row 6 the effects of the “new” DI scale of beliefs about family change causing development, row 7 the effects of new DI values about the present, and row 8 lists effects of new DI values about the future. [...] In considering the magnitudes of the effects of the new DI present values scales, note that since the predictor variables are standardized, the coefficients of 1.13 and 1.20 indicate that a one standard deviation difference in the predictor variable is associated with a 13 and 20 percent difference in the odds of migrating to a WWA destination.