Autor según el artículo: Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric

Departamento: Economia

Autor/es de la URV: Díaz Serrano, L. ; Meix-Llop, E.

Palabras clave: Homosexual rights Homosexual parents Discrimination Correspondence field experiment Schools

Resumen: 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.

Grupo de investigación: ECO-SOS – Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics

Áreas temáticas: Economics and business Economía y empresa Economia i empresa

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Direcció de correo del autor: luis.diaz@urv.cat

ISSN: 0272-7757

Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-9479-5091 0000-0002-5069-8158

Fecha de alta del registro: 2016-07-04

Página final: 142

Volumen de revista: 53

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775716302989

DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.06.001

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2016

Página inicial: 133

Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article