Articles producció científica> Economia

Do schools discriminate against homosexual parents? Evidence from a randomized correspondence experiment

  • Dades identificatives

    Identificador: PC:1786
    Autors:
    Diaz-Serrano, LuisMeix-Llop, Enric
    Resum:
    Filiació URV: SI
  • Altres:

    Autor segons l'article: Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric
    Departament: Economia
    Autor/s de la URV: Díaz Serrano, L. ; Meix-Llop, E.
    Paraules clau: Homosexual rights Homosexual parents Discrimination Correspondence field experiment Schools
    Resum: The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after the Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual marriage and the adoption of children by homosexual couples. In this paper, we examine for the first time whether schools are more hesitant about giving feedback to homosexual parents during children's pre-registration period in Catalonia (Spain). To do so, we designed a correspondence experiment to be conducted in schools. We created three types of fictitious couples-one heterosexual, one gay, and one lesbian-and sent emails to schools in which the couples' sexual orientation was explicit. Our results show that gay couples had a significantly lower (22 percentage points) call-back probability than heterosexual couples. No statistically significant differences in call-back probability were found between the lesbian and heterosexual couples.
    Grup de recerca: ECO-SOS – Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics
    Àrees temàtiques: Economics and business Economía y empresa Economia i empresa
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: luis.diaz@urv.cat
    ISSN: 0272-7757
    Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0001-9479-5091 0000-0002-5069-8158
    Data d'alta del registre: 2016-07-04
    Pàgina final: 142
    Volum de revista: 53
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2016
    Pàgina inicial: 133
    Tipus de publicació: Article Artículo Article
  • Paraules clau:

    Educació
    Economia
    Homosexual rights
    Homosexual parents
    Discrimination
    Correspondence field experiment
    Schools
    Economics and business
    Economía y empresa
    Economia i empresa
    0272-7757
  • Documents:

  • Cerca a google

    Search to google scholar