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Título:
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Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment
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Autor/a:
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Díaz Serrano, Lluís; Meix Llop, Enric
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Otros autores:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia; Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública |
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Abstract:
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The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain
was the third country in the world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law
recognizing homosexual marriage and adoption of children. In this paper, we examine
for the first time whether schools are more hesitant to give feedback to homosexual
parents during children's pre-registration period in Spain. In order to do that, we
designed an internet field experiment to be conducted in schools. We created three types
of fictitious couples; one heterosexual, one male homosexual and one female
homosexual, and send emails to schools making sexual orientation explicit. Our results
show that men homosexual couples had a significant lower probability to receive and
answer than heterosexual couples (22.5 percentage points less). No statistically
significant differences in the response rate were found between female homosexual and
heterosexual couples. This result suggests that male homosexual couples might be
penalized because of the lack of a maternal figure.
Keywords: Discrimination, field experiment, schools, homosexual rights.
JEL codes: H41, I20, K36 |
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Fecha de creación:
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2015 |
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Materias (CDU):
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316 - Sociologia. Comunicació
37 - Educació. Ensenyament. Formació. Temps lliure |
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Materia(s):
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Homofòbia
Espanya
Discriminació sexual en l'educació
Famílies homoparentals |
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Derechos:
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L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
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Páginas:
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28 p. |
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Tipo de documento:
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Documento de trabajo |
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Editor:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia
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Collection:
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Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2015-08
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