Lorenzo Escot
Biographic Data
| ID | 375274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo Escot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Escot |
| SIGNATURE | ESCOT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6734-6327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Retaining football referees
Referee retention is a significant concern in football, affecting the sport’s integrity and continuity. While research has highlighted the pressures referees face, few studies have examined the biographical, motivational, and organisational factors influencing their career duration. This article explores the determinants of referee retention through a two-step, data-driven analysis of a unique dataset covering football referees in Madrid over thr…
Traditional and Insecure Masculinities Are Not the Best Allies of Caring Fatherhood
The development of the “new father” figure, an increasingly popular identity of fathers involved in the care of their young children, can be considered as a manifestation of the emergence of a more inclusive hegemonic masculinity. However, it can also be considered a mere complicit adaptation of a traditional masculinity that has barely experienced change. To investigate this question, we drew on data from a sample of 415 heterosexual male wage e…
Parental leave system design impacts on its gendered use
Parent capability
We use Sen’s capability approach to identify factors able to increase the effective freedom of working parents when deciding the length of their parental leave. We conducted a factorial survey experiment (FSE) with a Spanish sample of employees aged between 25 and 45. Respondents were asked to imagine that they were first-time parents and several descriptions of hypothetical situations or vignettes (where aspects of the leave system, workplace an…
Do I feel entitled to it? Caring dads after the equalization of parental leave in Spain
Purpose In January 2021, Spanish paid parental leave for fathers was fully equated with that for mothers. Is this facilitating working fathers developing an identity of caring fathers? Design/methodology/approach We conducted qualitative research based on 31 interviews with heterosexual fathers residing in Spain, who had a child from January 1, 2021 onwards, who cohabited with the baby’s mother, and who were salaried. We also added two mothers wi…
Tools and data for the analysis of gender policies
One of the targets of the UN's Our Common Agenda Report is placing women at the centre. In this paper, we propose a three‐step methodology for the analysis of gender inequality: (1) we explain how gender gaps are measured and present several indicators of inequality and discrimination against women. Several international institutions are paying close attention to the topic, and we present their main indexes; (2) we show the different ways that ex…
Survival analysis of football referees in Madrid, 1991-2021
While football is a billionaire spectacle, the figure of the referee mainly presents an amateur career and a notorious diversity among the different national and regional federations. In this article, we analyse which variables determine the lifespan of the referee’s career in Madrid. We apply survival analysis toa dataset of 2,978 registered referees provided by the Real Federation de Fútbol de Madrid (RFFM). The results show relevant conclusion…
Whether your name is Manuel or María matters
A controlled experiment was conducted to detect gender biases that participants, acting as advisers, may have when providing guidance to teenagers on their career choice. We presented a fictional profile to the study participants – university students from Spain – of a 15-year-old person, called Manuel or María, with two possible levels of academic record. The participants were asked to evaluate the student’s mathematical ability and provide guid…
Why do Spanish fathers still make little use of the family-friendly measures
This article examines why Spanish fathers still make little use of the family-friendly measures (FFM) they are entitled to. Amartya Sen's capabilities approach is applied to the analysis of this agency gap in work-family balance (WFB). Males wishing to balance work and family face a series of barriers that inhibit their use of FFM, creating a gap between the theoretical right to use these measures and the real ability to do so. We illustrate this…
Penalizing fathers who use family-friendly measures. A comparative study with university students from Ghana and Spain
Why Spanish Working Fathers Do not Request the Reconciliation Measures Available in Their Companies
Many working fathers would be potential users of the existing reconciliation measures but they do not request them. One barrier they encounter is the lack of sensitivity on the part of corporate culture to men who want to balance work and family life. We use a sample of Spanish wage-earner fathers and path analysis to analyze—following Sen's capability approach—how companies that support the use of reconciliation measures by fathers can reduce th…
Gender Norms and Other Factors Explaining the Gender Gap in Students’ Entrepreneurial Inclination in Spain and Iceland
Young women still have a lower entrepreneurial inclination (EI) than young men in both a Latin society (Spain) and in a Nordic society (Iceland).Our data come from a survey conducted among university students who attended the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Iceland.After constructing a set of variables and indicators that served as explanatory variables, and after conducting a statistical and regression analysis, this study…
Do Fathers Who Took Childbirth Leave Become More Involved in Their Children's Care? The Case of Spain
This article is based on a survey that we conducted among 1,130 couples with children 3-8 years old, in Madrid and its metropolitan area. This allowed us, in the first place to obtain an estimation of the take-up rate and duration of the different kinds of childbirth leaves that Spanish workers use when they have or adopt a child. In the second place, the participation of the father has been analyzed in comparison to the mother's in 18 specific c…
Gender differences in young adults’ inclination to sacrifice career opportunities in the future for family reasons
This article addresses the question of to what extent young people show an inclination to accept some sacrifice in their career progression in the future in order to reach a better work–family balance. Data come from a survey conducted among a sample of 2383 university students who attended three universities: University of Nairobi, University of Iceland, and Complutense University of Madrid. After building a set of indicators about career and fa…
Fathers’ Use of Childbirth Leave in Spain. The Effects of the 13-Day Paternity Leave
Willingness of Spanish Men to Take Maternity Leave. Do Firms’ Strategies for Reconciliation Impinge on This
Intermediarios del mercado de trabajo y eficacia de los métodos de búsqueda de empleo durante la crisis económica
Las elevadas tasas de paro que sufre la economía española justifican la búsqueda de medidas que ayuden a mejorar las posibilidades de reinserción laboral de los trabajadores desempleados. En este sentido, una eficaz intermediación laboral entre oferentes y demandantes de trabajo resulta fundamental para reducir los tiempos de búsqueda de empleo. En este trabajo se realiza un análisis de los diferentes intermediarios y mecanismos de búsqueda de em…
Willingness of Spanish Men to Take Maternity Leave. Do Firms’ Strategies for Reconciliation Impinge on This
Fathers’ Use of Childbirth Leave in Spain. The Effects of the 13-Day Paternity Leave
Penalizing fathers who use family-friendly measures. A comparative study with university students from Ghana and Spain
Do Fathers Who Took Childbirth Leave Become More Involved in Their Children's Care? The Case of Spain
This article is based on a survey that we conducted among 1,130 couples with children 3-8 years old, in Madrid and its metropolitan area. This allowed us, in the first place to obtain an estimation of the take-up rate and duration of the different kinds of childbirth leaves that Spanish workers use when they have or adopt a child. In the second place, the participation of the father has been analyzed in comparison to the mother's in 18 specific c…
Gender differences in young adults’ inclination to sacrifice career opportunities in the future for family reasons
This article addresses the question of to what extent young people show an inclination to accept some sacrifice in their career progression in the future in order to reach a better work–family balance. Data come from a survey conducted among a sample of 2383 university students who attended three universities: University of Nairobi, University of Iceland, and Complutense University of Madrid. After building a set of indicators about career and fa…
Do I feel entitled to it? Caring dads after the equalization of parental leave in Spain
Purpose In January 2021, Spanish paid parental leave for fathers was fully equated with that for mothers. Is this facilitating working fathers developing an identity of caring fathers? Design/methodology/approach We conducted qualitative research based on 31 interviews with heterosexual fathers residing in Spain, who had a child from January 1, 2021 onwards, who cohabited with the baby’s mother, and who were salaried. We also added two mothers wi…
Why Spanish Working Fathers Do not Request the Reconciliation Measures Available in Their Companies
Many working fathers would be potential users of the existing reconciliation measures but they do not request them. One barrier they encounter is the lack of sensitivity on the part of corporate culture to men who want to balance work and family life. We use a sample of Spanish wage-earner fathers and path analysis to analyze—following Sen's capability approach—how companies that support the use of reconciliation measures by fathers can reduce th…
Intermediarios del mercado de trabajo y eficacia de los métodos de búsqueda de empleo durante la crisis económica
Las elevadas tasas de paro que sufre la economía española justifican la búsqueda de medidas que ayuden a mejorar las posibilidades de reinserción laboral de los trabajadores desempleados. En este sentido, una eficaz intermediación laboral entre oferentes y demandantes de trabajo resulta fundamental para reducir los tiempos de búsqueda de empleo. En este trabajo se realiza un análisis de los diferentes intermediarios y mecanismos de búsqueda de em…
Whether your name is Manuel or María matters
A controlled experiment was conducted to detect gender biases that participants, acting as advisers, may have when providing guidance to teenagers on their career choice. We presented a fictional profile to the study participants – university students from Spain – of a 15-year-old person, called Manuel or María, with two possible levels of academic record. The participants were asked to evaluate the student’s mathematical ability and provide guid…
Why do Spanish fathers still make little use of the family-friendly measures
This article examines why Spanish fathers still make little use of the family-friendly measures (FFM) they are entitled to. Amartya Sen's capabilities approach is applied to the analysis of this agency gap in work-family balance (WFB). Males wishing to balance work and family face a series of barriers that inhibit their use of FFM, creating a gap between the theoretical right to use these measures and the real ability to do so. We illustrate this…
Intermediarios del mercado de trabajo y eficacia de los métodos de búsqueda de empleo durante la crisis económica
Las elevadas tasas de paro que sufre la economía española justifican la búsqueda de medidas que ayuden a mejorar las posibilidades de reinserción laboral de los trabajadores desempleados. En este sentido, una eficaz intermediación laboral entre oferentes y demandantes de trabajo resulta fundamental para reducir los tiempos de búsqueda de empleo. En este trabajo se realiza un análisis de los diferentes intermediarios y mecanismos de búsqueda de em…
Willingness of Spanish Men to Take Maternity Leave. Do Firms’ Strategies for Reconciliation Impinge on This
Fathers’ Use of Childbirth Leave in Spain. The Effects of the 13-Day Paternity Leave
Gender differences in young adults’ inclination to sacrifice career opportunities in the future for family reasons
This article addresses the question of to what extent young people show an inclination to accept some sacrifice in their career progression in the future in order to reach a better work–family balance. Data come from a survey conducted among a sample of 2383 university students who attended three universities: University of Nairobi, University of Iceland, and Complutense University of Madrid. After building a set of indicators about career and fa…
Do Fathers Who Took Childbirth Leave Become More Involved in Their Children's Care? The Case of Spain
This article is based on a survey that we conducted among 1,130 couples with children 3-8 years old, in Madrid and its metropolitan area. This allowed us, in the first place to obtain an estimation of the take-up rate and duration of the different kinds of childbirth leaves that Spanish workers use when they have or adopt a child. In the second place, the participation of the father has been analyzed in comparison to the mother's in 18 specific c…
Why Spanish Working Fathers Do not Request the Reconciliation Measures Available in Their Companies
Many working fathers would be potential users of the existing reconciliation measures but they do not request them. One barrier they encounter is the lack of sensitivity on the part of corporate culture to men who want to balance work and family life. We use a sample of Spanish wage-earner fathers and path analysis to analyze—following Sen's capability approach—how companies that support the use of reconciliation measures by fathers can reduce th…
Gender Norms and Other Factors Explaining the Gender Gap in Students’ Entrepreneurial Inclination in Spain and Iceland
Young women still have a lower entrepreneurial inclination (EI) than young men in both a Latin society (Spain) and in a Nordic society (Iceland).Our data come from a survey conducted among university students who attended the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Iceland.After constructing a set of variables and indicators that served as explanatory variables, and after conducting a statistical and regression analysis, this study…
Penalizing fathers who use family-friendly measures. A comparative study with university students from Ghana and Spain
Whether your name is Manuel or María matters
A controlled experiment was conducted to detect gender biases that participants, acting as advisers, may have when providing guidance to teenagers on their career choice. We presented a fictional profile to the study participants – university students from Spain – of a 15-year-old person, called Manuel or María, with two possible levels of academic record. The participants were asked to evaluate the student’s mathematical ability and provide guid…
Why do Spanish fathers still make little use of the family-friendly measures
This article examines why Spanish fathers still make little use of the family-friendly measures (FFM) they are entitled to. Amartya Sen's capabilities approach is applied to the analysis of this agency gap in work-family balance (WFB). Males wishing to balance work and family face a series of barriers that inhibit their use of FFM, creating a gap between the theoretical right to use these measures and the real ability to do so. We illustrate this…
Survival analysis of football referees in Madrid, 1991-2021
While football is a billionaire spectacle, the figure of the referee mainly presents an amateur career and a notorious diversity among the different national and regional federations. In this article, we analyse which variables determine the lifespan of the referee’s career in Madrid. We apply survival analysis toa dataset of 2,978 registered referees provided by the Real Federation de Fútbol de Madrid (RFFM). The results show relevant conclusion…
Tools and data for the analysis of gender policies
One of the targets of the UN's Our Common Agenda Report is placing women at the centre. In this paper, we propose a three‐step methodology for the analysis of gender inequality: (1) we explain how gender gaps are measured and present several indicators of inequality and discrimination against women. Several international institutions are paying close attention to the topic, and we present their main indexes; (2) we show the different ways that ex…
Parental leave system design impacts on its gendered use
Parent capability
We use Sen’s capability approach to identify factors able to increase the effective freedom of working parents when deciding the length of their parental leave. We conducted a factorial survey experiment (FSE) with a Spanish sample of employees aged between 25 and 45. Respondents were asked to imagine that they were first-time parents and several descriptions of hypothetical situations or vignettes (where aspects of the leave system, workplace an…
Do I feel entitled to it? Caring dads after the equalization of parental leave in Spain
Purpose In January 2021, Spanish paid parental leave for fathers was fully equated with that for mothers. Is this facilitating working fathers developing an identity of caring fathers? Design/methodology/approach We conducted qualitative research based on 31 interviews with heterosexual fathers residing in Spain, who had a child from January 1, 2021 onwards, who cohabited with the baby’s mother, and who were salaried. We also added two mothers wi…
Retaining football referees
Referee retention is a significant concern in football, affecting the sport’s integrity and continuity. While research has highlighted the pressures referees face, few studies have examined the biographical, motivational, and organisational factors influencing their career duration. This article explores the determinants of referee retention through a two-step, data-driven analysis of a unique dataset covering football referees in Madrid over thr…
Traditional and Insecure Masculinities Are Not the Best Allies of Caring Fatherhood
The development of the “new father” figure, an increasingly popular identity of fathers involved in the care of their young children, can be considered as a manifestation of the emergence of a more inclusive hegemonic masculinity. However, it can also be considered a mere complicit adaptation of a traditional masculinity that has barely experienced change. To investigate this question, we drew on data from a sample of 415 heterosexual male wage e…
Psychology (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (11 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Work (physics (6 works)