Gender differences in social interactions

Friebel, Guido; Lalanne, Marie; Richter, Bernard; Schwardmann, Peter; Seabright, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2021.03.016

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“…Males, younger, and tertiary educated adults placed a higher value on social interactions and were more willing to trade being traced by a DCT tool for social interactions, compared with females, non-tertiary educated, and older adults. This finding was not surprising as men tend to form wider social networks than women 25 , 26 . Older adults may have a lower preference for social interactions during the pandemic due to higher risks of severe COVID-19 disease or for the public good in response to the government’s call to minimize social interactions in the containment of the pandemic.…”

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The value of social interactions and incentives on the use of a digital contact tracing tool post COVID-19 lockdown in Singapore

Huang

Guo

Lim

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We assessed the preferences and trade-offs for social interactions, incentives, and being traced by a digital contact tracing (DCT) tool post lockdown in Singapore by a discrete choice experiment (DCE) among 3839 visitors of a large public hospital in Singapore between July 2020 – February 2021. Respondents were sampled proportionately by gender and four age categories (21 – 80 years). The DCE questionnaire had three attributes (1. Social interactions, 2. Being traced by a DCT tool, 3. Incentives to use a DCT tool) and two levels each. Panel fixed conditional logit model was used to analyse the data. Respondents were more willing to trade being traced by a DCT tool for social interactions than incentives and unwilling to trade social interactions for incentives. The proportion of respondents preferring no incentives and could only be influenced by their family members increases with age. Among proponents of monetary incentives, the preferred median value for a month’s usage of DCT tools amounted to S$10 (USD7.25) and S$50 (USD36.20) for subsidies and lucky draw. In conclusion, DCE can be used to elicit profile-specific preferences to optimize the uptake of DCT tools during a pandemic. Social interactions are highly valued by the population, who are willing to trade them for being traced by a DCT tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although a small amount of incentive is sufficient to increase the satisfaction of using a DCT tool, incentives alone may not increase DCT tool uptake.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

The value of social interactions and incentives on the use of a digital contact tracing tool post COVID-19 lockdown in Singapore

Huang

Guo

Lim

et al. 2022

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Section: The Gender Gap and Women's Networkmentioning

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“…Nevertheless, there is suggestive evidence that women tend to rely relatively more on small social networks of strong relationships, while men tend to build larger groups with weaker types of relationship Seabright (2011), David-Barrett et al (2015), Friebel et al (2021), Ductor et al (2020)). Following Granovetter (1973)'s 'strength of weak ties' argument according to which weak links are often more useful in the job search context, a greater number of such ties might help men get ahead compared to women.…”

Section: The Gender Gap and Women's Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, Friebel et al . (2021) show that apparent homophily in network structure may be the outcome of differences in male and female behavior toward those with whom they have interacted in the past without any conscious preference for interactions with the same gender. In a similar vein, a second strand of explanations rests, not on different network structures, but on different behaviors within networks.…”

Section: The Gender Gap and Women's Networkmentioning

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The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?

Lalanne

Seabright

2022

Journal of Institutional Economics

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We investigate the impact of professional networks on men's and women's earnings, using a dataset of European and North American executives. The size of an individual's network of influential former colleagues has a large positive association with remuneration, with an elasticity of around 21%. However, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity using various fixed effects as well as a placebo technique, we find that the real causal impact of networks is barely positive for men and significantly lower for women. We provide suggestive evidence indicating that the apparent discrimination against women is due to two factors: first, both men and women are helped more by own-gender than other-gender connections, and men have more of these than women do. Second, a subset of employers we identify as ‘female friendly firms’ recruit more women but reward networks less than other firms.

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“…This has also made it impossible for battered and aggrieved women to obtain help. The inferior status of women in social interaction and social relation has meant a high level of illiteracy, poor health, poor self-worth, low ambition, low self-actualisation and fewer achievements in life generally pointing out the fundamentality of social interaction and social relations in the very essence of human existence (Ridgeway and Smith-Lovin 1996;Ridgeway and Smith-Lovin 2006;Ghosh et al 2019;Friebel et al 2021).…”

Section: Gender and Social Interaction And Social Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitalisation of Oral Traditions and Documenting Contemporary Social Issues: A Study on the Little Known Karbi Films of Karbi Anglong Assam

Bhattacharjee¹

2022

JSSA

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This paper reviews critically the relevance of social interaction and social relations as the core foundation for all human endeavours, making it possible for people to live together in every existing society. This is with a view to give a clear understanding and to demonstrate its centrality in the existence of human societies and in the emergence of the discipline of sociology. The objective of this paper is to create an understanding of social interaction and social relations. The paper employed the symbolic interactionist perspective to review the components and types of social interaction, socialisation and how it has evolved over the years. The study reveals that social interaction and social relations are very important, and form an integral part of human societies and this is why stigmatisation and ostracism are very effective as tools of social control and regulation. The study also reveals that social interaction and social relations form both micro and macro sociological orientations and have evolved over time, and this evolution has been facilitated by advancement in technology and globalisation. The paper concludes that the development of human beings and their societies depends on social interactions and social relations. The study recommends that the turn that social interaction and social relations takes can determine the level of development because if, social interaction is chaotic, it will bring about confusion and conflict and there will be little or no development. But, if social interaction were that of cooperation, more development would be recorded by society.

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Gender differences in social interactions

Cited by 23 publications

References 33 publications

The value of social interactions and incentives on the use of a digital contact tracing tool post COVID-19 lockdown in Singapore

The value of social interactions and incentives on the use of a digital contact tracing tool post COVID-19 lockdown in Singapore

The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?

Digitalisation of Oral Traditions and Documenting Contemporary Social Issues: A Study on the Little Known Karbi Films of Karbi Anglong Assam

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