Author, as appears in the article.: Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric
Department: Economia
URV's Author/s: Díaz Serrano, L. ; Meix-Llop, E.
Keywords: Homosexual rights Homosexual parents Discrimination Correspondence field experiment Schools
Abstract: 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.
Research group: ECO-SOS – Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics
Thematic Areas: Economics and business Economía y empresa Economia i empresa
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: luis.diaz@urv.cat
ISSN: 0272-7757
Author identifier: 0000-0001-9479-5091 0000-0002-5069-8158
Record's date: 2016-07-04
Last page: 142
Journal volume: 53
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775716302989
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.06.001
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2016
First page: 133
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
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