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Intergenerational transmission of homophobia

Hörlén, August LU (2018) NEKP01 20181
Department of Economics
Abstract (Swedish)
Previous studies are divided in the question if there exist an intergen- erational transmission of homophobia, whereas some have found a weak or no relationship, while others found a positive relationship. This paper uses the epidemiological approach by Fernandez (2010). The method regress sec- ond generation immigrant on ancestral country values. The main idea of the method is to identify the effects of culture throughout exploration in economic outcomes of individuals who share similar institutional and economic environ- ment, while the social beliefs differ. The level of democracy is used to proxy the attitude against homosexuals in the parents birth country, since previous studies have proven a strong relationship between the two. The... (More)
Previous studies are divided in the question if there exist an intergen- erational transmission of homophobia, whereas some have found a weak or no relationship, while others found a positive relationship. This paper uses the epidemiological approach by Fernandez (2010). The method regress sec- ond generation immigrant on ancestral country values. The main idea of the method is to identify the effects of culture throughout exploration in economic outcomes of individuals who share similar institutional and economic environ- ment, while the social beliefs differ. The level of democracy is used to proxy the attitude against homosexuals in the parents birth country, since previous studies have proven a strong relationship between the two. The results are that there exist a significant transmission from the father to the child, while the relationship is not significant from mother to child. Furthermore a series of robustness test are perform to ensure the validity of the estimate. (Less)
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author
Hörlén, August LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
A study on the parents influence of the acceptance towards homosexuals
course
NEKP01 20181
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Intergenerational transmission, homophobia, epidemiological ap- proach.
language
English
id
8958933
date added to LUP
2018-09-26 09:16:39
date last changed
2018-09-26 09:16:39
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  abstract     = {{Previous studies are divided in the question if there exist an intergen- erational transmission of homophobia, whereas some have found a weak or no relationship, while others found a positive relationship. This paper uses the epidemiological approach by Fernandez (2010). The method regress sec- ond generation immigrant on ancestral country values. The main idea of the method is to identify the effects of culture throughout exploration in economic outcomes of individuals who share similar institutional and economic environ- ment, while the social beliefs differ. The level of democracy is used to proxy the attitude against homosexuals in the parents birth country, since previous studies have proven a strong relationship between the two. The results are that there exist a significant transmission from the father to the child, while the relationship is not significant from mother to child. Furthermore a series of robustness test are perform to ensure the validity of the estimate.}},
  author       = {{Hörlén, August}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Intergenerational transmission of homophobia}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}