Renzo Carriero
Biographic Data
| ID | 284745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renzo Carriero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Carriero |
| SIGNATURE | CARRIERO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0580-3596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Social norms and intentions to adopt double surnames in Italy
The custom of transmitting only the paternal surname to children remains widespread in most patrilineal societies. Given how societal emphasis on gender equality has increased in other societal domains in recent decades (e.g. employment, wages, domestic chores), the question of why parents refrain from adopting more egalitarian surname practices (such as double surnames) presents a compelling sociological puzzle. This article aims to address this…
Different Paths, Diverging Views
This article examines how life course social environments and family background influence individuals’ perceptions of inequality and egalitarian beliefs. While previous research has emphasized individual or national factors, this study highlights the meso-level dynamics of social contexts. By analyzing exposure over the life course to different socioeconomic groups within key socializing institutions, such as schools and neighborhoods, we address…
Religious socialization and the changing role of women
You have to work more than men to succeed! Gender differences in workaholism among Italian academics
Over the last decades, Italian university reforms have put increased pressure on academics and researchers towards greater productivity and accountability. These changes have generated an ‘overtime culture', which is one of the main determinants of workaholism, over-commitment, and presenteeism among academics. The consequences of such changes are not gender-neutral: women – more often disadvantaged in academic careers than men – might be more af…
Investigating PhDs’ early career occupational outcomes in Italy
The paper examines how individual motivations, the role of the supervisor and gender influence the early career path of doctorate holders. We investigate PhD graduates’ occupational outcomes beyond academia in the framework of current literature on the oversupply of PhD holders and labor market constraints. Our analysis relies on two unique datasets. The first, at the national level, includes microdata from the Italian National Institute of Stati…
Should we care about pay ratios? Dealing with ISSP questions on actual and ideal wages from a comparative perspective
Questions on actual and ideal wages of various occupations are distinctive features of ISSP Social Inequality modules which can be used to quantify respondents' perceived and ideal wage inequality, by computing pay ratios ex-post. However, recent research has raised harsh criticism of pay ratios, emphasizing that they suffer from anchoring bias, ratio bias, and, more generally, low validity. This article investigates what adjustments can be made …
Moving away from civilization
For decades, Italian social life has been witnessing a series of episodes of civil decay such as widespread illegality, environmental mismanagement, corruption, violence against women, the elderly and minors, questioning of scientific results and mistrust of professional abilities, online hate, and anti-vaccination movements. Although some of these social phenomena are not restricted to Italy, their spread and pervasiveness in this country are li…
The fates of human societies
In this critical note, I address two issues arising from the latest book by Simone Sarti “Il caso e la società”: the nexus between causality and chance, and the role of individual agency. I argue that the widely accepted notion of counterfactual causality cannot be applied to unique and unrepeatable events. Consequently, even the role of chance is not easily detectable in individual instances because an appropriate counterfactual is very difficul…
State or market? Italians’ attitudes and the role of social class in the last thirty years
The article investigates whether and how Italians’ attitudes towards the role of the state and the market have changed between 1990 and 2020. Specifically, it will investigate two sets of opposite attitudes: individualism versus collectivism, and free market liberalism versus statism. Two opposing macro hypotheses are considered. The first is that Italian citizens adopt attitudes that are in line with policy trends (policy feedback), while the se…
The role of culture in the gendered division of domestic labor
An attractive explanation of the persistence of gender inequality in the division of domestic labor hinges on the role of culture. However, it is difficult to demonstrate the impact of cultural factors (e.g. social norms), as they are confounded with other institutional factors (e.g. social policies). This article deals with this issue by applying the emerging ‘epidemiological approach’ which focuses on international migrants as individuals who b…
Support for conditional unemployment benefit in European countries
This article investigates attitudes towards the conditionality of benefits targeted to a specific needy group, the unemployed, and analyses their relationship with the structure of income inequality. The focus is on the deservingness of welfare recipients. The public seems to use five criteria to define deservingness and, consequently, the conditionality to which public support is subjected: need, attitude (i.e. gratefulness), control (over needi…
Housework division and gender ideology
Attitudes toward gender roles are one of the factors that have received most attention in the literature on housework division. Nevertheless, egalitarian attitudes often do not match egalitarian domestic behaviors
The Interplay between Equity and Gender Ideology in Perceived Housework Fairness
Previous survey studies on the perceived fairness of the division of housework have suffered from limitations resulting from the use of observational data, namely reverse causation, unobserved heterogeneity, and the difficulty of estimating more than one causal effect at once. This article overcomes these limitations by using an innovative method in this research field: a survey-based vignette design combining the benefits of experiments with a h…
Housework Division and Perceived Fairness
A long-standing theoretical tradition underlines the importance of comparison referents for fairness evaluation, i.e., people, experiences and expectations that individuals choose to compare with their own situation. However, few studies on perceived fairness of housework division have measured and tested comparison referents, partly because of the lack of suitable data. Moreover, findings were sometimes mixed because small convenience samples we…
Perceived Fairness and Satisfaction with the Division of Housework Among Dual-Earner Couples in Italy
A well-documented paradox in family literature is that most married women and men consider the division of household labor to be fair, although its distribution is quite uneven. In this article I report results from a survey on 404 dual-earner couples with young children living in Torino, Italy. A small proportion of wives and husbands (13.6% and 5.7%, respectively) reported both unfairness and dissatisfaction with the division of housework. The …
Do Parents Coordinate Their Work Schedules? A Comparison of Dutch, Flemish, and Italian Dual-Earner Households
As a consequence of the rising number of dual-earner households, many contemporary couples in Europe face two potentially conflicting job schedules when figuring out how to allocate their time over a week. In this article, we study how dual-earner couples with children organize their working time in Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands. We place working time coordination explicitly in a comparative framework to allow cross-country differences in t…
Housework division and gender ideology
Attitudes toward gender roles are one of the factors that have received most attention in the literature on housework division. Nevertheless, egalitarian attitudes often do not match egalitarian domestic behaviors
Do Parents Coordinate Their Work Schedules? A Comparison of Dutch, Flemish, and Italian Dual-Earner Households
As a consequence of the rising number of dual-earner households, many contemporary couples in Europe face two potentially conflicting job schedules when figuring out how to allocate their time over a week. In this article, we study how dual-earner couples with children organize their working time in Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands. We place working time coordination explicitly in a comparative framework to allow cross-country differences in t…
Perceived Fairness and Satisfaction with the Division of Housework Among Dual-Earner Couples in Italy
A well-documented paradox in family literature is that most married women and men consider the division of household labor to be fair, although its distribution is quite uneven. In this article I report results from a survey on 404 dual-earner couples with young children living in Torino, Italy. A small proportion of wives and husbands (13.6% and 5.7%, respectively) reported both unfairness and dissatisfaction with the division of housework. The …
The role of culture in the gendered division of domestic labor
An attractive explanation of the persistence of gender inequality in the division of domestic labor hinges on the role of culture. However, it is difficult to demonstrate the impact of cultural factors (e.g. social norms), as they are confounded with other institutional factors (e.g. social policies). This article deals with this issue by applying the emerging ‘epidemiological approach’ which focuses on international migrants as individuals who b…
The Interplay between Equity and Gender Ideology in Perceived Housework Fairness
Previous survey studies on the perceived fairness of the division of housework have suffered from limitations resulting from the use of observational data, namely reverse causation, unobserved heterogeneity, and the difficulty of estimating more than one causal effect at once. This article overcomes these limitations by using an innovative method in this research field: a survey-based vignette design combining the benefits of experiments with a h…
Support for conditional unemployment benefit in European countries
This article investigates attitudes towards the conditionality of benefits targeted to a specific needy group, the unemployed, and analyses their relationship with the structure of income inequality. The focus is on the deservingness of welfare recipients. The public seems to use five criteria to define deservingness and, consequently, the conditionality to which public support is subjected: need, attitude (i.e. gratefulness), control (over needi…
Housework Division and Perceived Fairness
A long-standing theoretical tradition underlines the importance of comparison referents for fairness evaluation, i.e., people, experiences and expectations that individuals choose to compare with their own situation. However, few studies on perceived fairness of housework division have measured and tested comparison referents, partly because of the lack of suitable data. Moreover, findings were sometimes mixed because small convenience samples we…
Do Parents Coordinate Their Work Schedules? A Comparison of Dutch, Flemish, and Italian Dual-Earner Households
As a consequence of the rising number of dual-earner households, many contemporary couples in Europe face two potentially conflicting job schedules when figuring out how to allocate their time over a week. In this article, we study how dual-earner couples with children organize their working time in Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands. We place working time coordination explicitly in a comparative framework to allow cross-country differences in t…
Perceived Fairness and Satisfaction with the Division of Housework Among Dual-Earner Couples in Italy
A well-documented paradox in family literature is that most married women and men consider the division of household labor to be fair, although its distribution is quite uneven. In this article I report results from a survey on 404 dual-earner couples with young children living in Torino, Italy. A small proportion of wives and husbands (13.6% and 5.7%, respectively) reported both unfairness and dissatisfaction with the division of housework. The …
Housework Division and Perceived Fairness
A long-standing theoretical tradition underlines the importance of comparison referents for fairness evaluation, i.e., people, experiences and expectations that individuals choose to compare with their own situation. However, few studies on perceived fairness of housework division have measured and tested comparison referents, partly because of the lack of suitable data. Moreover, findings were sometimes mixed because small convenience samples we…
The Interplay between Equity and Gender Ideology in Perceived Housework Fairness
Previous survey studies on the perceived fairness of the division of housework have suffered from limitations resulting from the use of observational data, namely reverse causation, unobserved heterogeneity, and the difficulty of estimating more than one causal effect at once. This article overcomes these limitations by using an innovative method in this research field: a survey-based vignette design combining the benefits of experiments with a h…
Support for conditional unemployment benefit in European countries
This article investigates attitudes towards the conditionality of benefits targeted to a specific needy group, the unemployed, and analyses their relationship with the structure of income inequality. The focus is on the deservingness of welfare recipients. The public seems to use five criteria to define deservingness and, consequently, the conditionality to which public support is subjected: need, attitude (i.e. gratefulness), control (over needi…
Housework division and gender ideology
Attitudes toward gender roles are one of the factors that have received most attention in the literature on housework division. Nevertheless, egalitarian attitudes often do not match egalitarian domestic behaviors
State or market? Italians’ attitudes and the role of social class in the last thirty years
The article investigates whether and how Italians’ attitudes towards the role of the state and the market have changed between 1990 and 2020. Specifically, it will investigate two sets of opposite attitudes: individualism versus collectivism, and free market liberalism versus statism. Two opposing macro hypotheses are considered. The first is that Italian citizens adopt attitudes that are in line with policy trends (policy feedback), while the se…
The role of culture in the gendered division of domestic labor
An attractive explanation of the persistence of gender inequality in the division of domestic labor hinges on the role of culture. However, it is difficult to demonstrate the impact of cultural factors (e.g. social norms), as they are confounded with other institutional factors (e.g. social policies). This article deals with this issue by applying the emerging ‘epidemiological approach’ which focuses on international migrants as individuals who b…
Moving away from civilization
For decades, Italian social life has been witnessing a series of episodes of civil decay such as widespread illegality, environmental mismanagement, corruption, violence against women, the elderly and minors, questioning of scientific results and mistrust of professional abilities, online hate, and anti-vaccination movements. Although some of these social phenomena are not restricted to Italy, their spread and pervasiveness in this country are li…
The fates of human societies
In this critical note, I address two issues arising from the latest book by Simone Sarti “Il caso e la società”: the nexus between causality and chance, and the role of individual agency. I argue that the widely accepted notion of counterfactual causality cannot be applied to unique and unrepeatable events. Consequently, even the role of chance is not easily detectable in individual instances because an appropriate counterfactual is very difficul…
You have to work more than men to succeed! Gender differences in workaholism among Italian academics
Over the last decades, Italian university reforms have put increased pressure on academics and researchers towards greater productivity and accountability. These changes have generated an ‘overtime culture', which is one of the main determinants of workaholism, over-commitment, and presenteeism among academics. The consequences of such changes are not gender-neutral: women – more often disadvantaged in academic careers than men – might be more af…
Investigating PhDs’ early career occupational outcomes in Italy
The paper examines how individual motivations, the role of the supervisor and gender influence the early career path of doctorate holders. We investigate PhD graduates’ occupational outcomes beyond academia in the framework of current literature on the oversupply of PhD holders and labor market constraints. Our analysis relies on two unique datasets. The first, at the national level, includes microdata from the Italian National Institute of Stati…
Should we care about pay ratios? Dealing with ISSP questions on actual and ideal wages from a comparative perspective
Questions on actual and ideal wages of various occupations are distinctive features of ISSP Social Inequality modules which can be used to quantify respondents' perceived and ideal wage inequality, by computing pay ratios ex-post. However, recent research has raised harsh criticism of pay ratios, emphasizing that they suffer from anchoring bias, ratio bias, and, more generally, low validity. This article investigates what adjustments can be made …
Religious socialization and the changing role of women
Social norms and intentions to adopt double surnames in Italy
The custom of transmitting only the paternal surname to children remains widespread in most patrilineal societies. Given how societal emphasis on gender equality has increased in other societal domains in recent decades (e.g. employment, wages, domestic chores), the question of why parents refrain from adopting more egalitarian surname practices (such as double surnames) presents a compelling sociological puzzle. This article aims to address this…
Different Paths, Diverging Views
This article examines how life course social environments and family background influence individuals’ perceptions of inequality and egalitarian beliefs. While previous research has emphasized individual or national factors, this study highlights the meso-level dynamics of social contexts. By analyzing exposure over the life course to different socioeconomic groups within key socializing institutions, such as schools and neighborhoods, we address…
Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works)