Octubre 2021

Fraile, Marta & de Miguel Moyer

Abstract. This study confirms the existence of a substantial gender gap in internal political efficacy in contemporary European democracies with survey evidence from the ESS08 and 09 waves. In the article it is argued that part of this gap is rooted in gendered patterns of socialisation according to which men are more likely than women to be socialised in ways that emphasise traits such as...

Julio 2021

Cruz-Castro, L., & Sanz-Menendez, L. (2021)

Abstract. Criteria for assessing candidates are essential elements for the functioning of evaluation practices in academia. This article addresses a relevant issue of academia: the preference for evaluation criteria for tenure and promotion, as reported by female and male academics employed at Spanish universities. We use survey data from 4,460 faculty members, testing whether there are...

Cruz-Castro, L. (2021). Diferencias

Resumen: En general, las científicas consiguen menos fondos para investigar y tienen, con respecto a los solicitantes, menores tasas de éxito que los hombres. Este artículo revisa críticamente la literatura sobre las disparidades y sesgos de género en la financiación de la investigación, reconociendo la diversidad de hallazgos, y poniendo el énfasis en la necesidad de clarificación conceptual y...

Mayo 2021

Perna Roberta (2021) Street-level workers

Abstract. Public organisations are fundamental actors in migrant incorporation processes, as they are in charge of assessing migrants’ entitlement and providing access to welfare services. While a lot has been written on the individual determinants of street-level decisions, the role of organisational and institutional factors in shaping implementation practices has received little attention so...

Marzo 2021

Aguiar, F., Álvarez, M., & Miller, L. (2021). Locus

Abstract. What individual characteristics predict inequality acceptance? Previous literature has focused on economic and sociological determinants of accepting inequalities. Here, we present experimental evidence of one individual correlate of inequality acceptance: the personality trait known as locus of control. In our study, inequality is induced experimentally through the exogenous assignment...

Vertommen, S., Pavone, V., & Nahman

Abstract. Over the last two decades, social scientists across disciplines have been researching how value is extracted and governed in the reproductive bioeconomy, which broadly refers to the various ways reproductive tissues, bodies, services, customers, workers, and data are inserted into capitalist modes of accumulation. While many of these studies are empirically grounded in single country–...

Febrero 2021

López-Pérez, R., Rodríguez-Moral

Abstract. Although no consensus on the issue exists yet, some evidence indicates that people are typically overprecise in their inferences. In particular, subjective confidence intervals are often too narrow when compared with Bayesian ones. This paper uses a quasi-Bayesian theory and lab experiments to explore overprecision when people learn about the empirical frequency of some random event....

Brugarolas, P., & Miller, L.

Abstract: This letter reports the results of a study that combined a unique natural experiment and a local randomization regression discontinuity approach to estimate the effect of polls on turnout intention. We found that the release of a poll increases turnout intention by 5%. This effect is robust to a number of falsification tests of predetermined covariates, placebo outcomes, and changes in...

Enero 2021

Barr, A., Miller, L and Ubeda, P. (2021)

Abstract. We present a set of studies the objective of which was to test the robustness of the acknowledgment of earned entitlement effect across different experimental modes and populations. We present three sets of results. The first is derived from a between-subject analysis of two independent, but comparable samples of nonstudent adults. One sample participated in a standard, behavioral...

Guerrero-Bote, V.P., Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z.

Abstract. This paper presents a large-scale document-level comparison of two major bibliographic data sources: Scopus and Dimensions. The focus is on the differences in their coverage of documents at two levels of aggregation: by country and by institution. The main goal is to analyze whether Dimensions offers as good new opportunities for bibliometric analysis at the country and institutional...