Collective religiosity and the gender gap in attitudes towards economic redistribution in 86 countries, 1990-2008

Jaime-Castillo, Antonio M.; Fernández González, Juan Jesús; Valiente Fernández, Celia; Mayrl, Damon Walter

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Collective religiosity and the gender gap in attitudes towards economic redistribution in 86 countries, 1990-2008

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales	es
dc.contributor.author	Jaime-Castillo, Antonio M.
dc.contributor.author	Fernández González, Juan Jesús
dc.contributor.author	Valiente Fernández, Celia
dc.contributor.author	Mayrl, Damon Walter
dc.contributor.funder	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)	es
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-25T10:20:28Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-25T10:20:28Z
dc.date.issued	2016-05
dc.description.abstract	What is the relationship between gender and the demand for redistribution? Because, on average, women face more economic deprivation than men, in many countries women favor redistribution more than men. However, this is not the case in a number of other countries, where women do not support redistribution more than men. To explain this cross-national paradox, we stress the role of collective religiosity. In many religions, theological principles both militate against public policies designed to redistribute income, and also promote traditionally gendered patterns of work and family involvement. Hence, we hypothesize that, in those countries where religion remains influential either through closer church-state ties or an intensely religious population, men and women should differ less in their attitudes towards redistribution. Drawing upon the World Values Survey, we estimate three-level regression models that test our religiosity-based approach and two alternative explanations in 86 countries and 175 country-years. The results are consistent with our hypothesis. Moreover, in further support of our theoretical approach, societal religiosity undermines pro-redistribution preferences more among women than men. Our findings suggest that collective religiosity matters more to the gender gap in redistributive attitudes than traditional political and labor force factors. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This project was partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CSO2011-29346).	en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Jaime-Castillo, A. M., Fernández, J. J., Valiente, C., & Mayrl, D. (2016). Collective religiosity and the gender gap in attitudes towards economic redistribution in 86 countries, 1990–2008. Social Science Research, 57, pp. 17-30)	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.01.009
dc.identifier.issn	0049-089X
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	17
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	30
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Social Science Research	en
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	57
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34851
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000017921
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Elsevier	en
dc.relation.projectID	Gobierno de España-CSO2011-29346
dc.rights	© 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Sociología	es
dc.subject.other	Redistributive Attitudes	es
dc.subject.other	Gender gap	en
dc.subject.other	Societal religiosity	en
dc.subject.other	Institutional religiosity	en
dc.title	Collective religiosity and the gender gap in attitudes towards economic redistribution in 86 countries, 1990-2008	en
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