Shair-Rosenfield, Sarah Yi-Yun orcid.org/0000-0001-5676-0947 and Liu, Amy (2023) To Marry or Not to Marry? Gender and Interethnic Group Trust. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. pp. 350-370. ISSN 2056-6085
Abstract
While there has been work on whether women are more tolerant of outgroups, the ethnic politics literature has generally overlooked the role of gender in explaining interethnic trust. Whatever attention exists often focuses on the gender of the subject—that is, who is doing the trusting—with mixed results. One reason is that the object being entrusted is either not specified or assumed genderless. In this paper, we call attention to the gender of an important entrusted object in interethnic relations: children. We argue people are less willing to have their daughters—compared to their sons—marry an ethnic outgroup. Additionally, this willingness declines as the cultural distance widens. We test this using a survey experiment in Romania where we leverage the diversity in ethnicity and a gendered language structure. Our results highlight the importance of accounting for gender-based differences in studying interethnic trust.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2023 |
Keywords: | gender,interethnic trust,marriage,Romania |
Dates: |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2023 07:40 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:51 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2023.20 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/rep.2023.20 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202474 |
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