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Gender and social mobility : exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation
Luke, Nancy - 2019
intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … countries. This paper discusses the measurement of gender attitudes and reviews research findings. Studies reveal that gender …. Mothers' egalitarian views and less-restrictive gender norms promote greater labour force participation for daughters and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161273
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Gender and social mobility: Exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation
Luke, Nancy - 2019
intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … countries. This paper discusses the measurement of gender attitudes and reviews research findings. Studies reveal that gender …. Mothers' egalitarian views and less-restrictive gender norms promote greater labour force participation for daughters and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423974
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Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments
Grigorieff, Alexis; Roth, Christopher; Ubfal, Diego - 2016
We study whether providing information about immigrants affects people's attitude towards them. First, we use a large representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the share of immigrants in their country, they become less likely to state that there are too many of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653147
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Keeping up with the e-Joneses: Do online social networks raise social comparisons?
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2018
Online social networks, such as Facebook, amplify the occasions for social comparisons which are detrimental to well-being. The authors test the hypothesis that the use of social networking sites (SNS) increases social comparisons using Italian data from the Multipurpose Household Survey, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848838
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Social capital, human capital and fertility
Coppier, Raffaella; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2018
We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853397
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Bride price and the wellbeing of women
Lowes, Sara; Nunn, Nathan - 2017
Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage, is a common cultural practice in many African societies. It is often argued that the practice may have negative effects for girls and women because it may: incentivize early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943734
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor. Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...
Kohnert, Dirk - 2006
formal and informal sector, within the informal sector, according to class, gender or religion, and between different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275975
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Keeping up with the e-Joneses: Do Online Social Networks Raise Social Comparisons?
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2016
Online social networks, such as Facebook, disclose an unprecedented volume of personal information amplifying the occasions for social comparisons, which can be a cause of frustration. We test the hypothesis that the use of social networking sites (SNS) increases social comparisons as proxied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492400
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Who trusts Berlusconi? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first econometric investigation into the role of television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust in television to be the most significant predictor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496156
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Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?
Sabatini, Fabio; Modena, Francesca; Tortia, Ermanno - 2012
This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496180