Anna Helgøy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Helgøy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Helgøy |
| SIGNATURE | HELGØY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3435-5478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How can we improve gender balance in local government? Family-friendly policies and static ambition in England
Women’s representation in European local governments remains stagnant at around one-third of councillors. One explanation for this longstanding gender gap relates to structural barriers blocking the supply of women candidates, including working practices which are not compatible with caring responsibilities. Yet, so far we do not know whether measures governments can implement to remedy this, including reimbursing care expenses and remote working…
Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life
How does cognitive household labour – the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs – influence decisions about whether and how to participate in public life? Studies suggest women take on the vast majority of this load, yet the impact of these private sector inequalities on participation in public life is underexplored. To make progress on these questions, we contribute new causal evidence about the effec…
Rethinking Part-Time Outsiders’ Risks and Welfare Attitudes
The growth of atypical work has created a divide between insiders, with safe jobs, and outsiders, in fixed-term, part-time, and/or precarious work situations. Due to higher economic risk, outsiders support compensating social policies more than insiders. However, the same consistency has not been found in the attitudes of part-time outsiders. Consequently, this article suggests an expansion from the work-nexus to the care-nexus of welfare when ex…
What sustains feminized part-time work at the gender equality frontier? Evidence from a vignette experiment
Feminized part-time work has been deemed a family policy conundrum yet to be solved by any welfare regime. To identify ways forward, this article examines structural drivers of part-time work decisions through a vignette experiment fielded in the gender-egalitarian context of Norway ( N = 3500). Six theory-grounded factors are tested in this multidimensional, causal framework: partner income level, physical and cognitive household labour burdens,…
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse
Perceptions that others will contribute their fair share are fundamental to the legitimacy of the political system. To better understand how these perceptions take shape beyond the influence of political narratives and socializations, this paper investigates the role of the formative personal experiences of benefit recipiency and income changes in explaining views on welfare abuse as well as tax evasion. Theoretically, both increasing identificat…
The formation of family policy attitudes: The Role of Justice Perceptions in the Division of Household Labour
Welfare state attitudes make up an interactive feedback loop of defining popular legitimacy and future policy trajectories. Understanding attitudinal drivers is thus essential political knowledge. However, as existing research is mainly based on the work-nexus of welfare, this article expands the literature to the welfare state's care-nexus, examining drivers of family policy attitudes. We argue that conventional attitude predictors of self-inter…
Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life
How does cognitive household labour – the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs – influence decisions about whether and how to participate in public life? Studies suggest women take on the vast majority of this load, yet the impact of these private sector inequalities on participation in public life is underexplored. To make progress on these questions, we contribute new causal evidence about the effec…
Rethinking Part-Time Outsiders’ Risks and Welfare Attitudes
The growth of atypical work has created a divide between insiders, with safe jobs, and outsiders, in fixed-term, part-time, and/or precarious work situations. Due to higher economic risk, outsiders support compensating social policies more than insiders. However, the same consistency has not been found in the attitudes of part-time outsiders. Consequently, this article suggests an expansion from the work-nexus to the care-nexus of welfare when ex…
What sustains feminized part-time work at the gender equality frontier? Evidence from a vignette experiment
Feminized part-time work has been deemed a family policy conundrum yet to be solved by any welfare regime. To identify ways forward, this article examines structural drivers of part-time work decisions through a vignette experiment fielded in the gender-egalitarian context of Norway ( N = 3500). Six theory-grounded factors are tested in this multidimensional, causal framework: partner income level, physical and cognitive household labour burdens,…
Rethinking Part-Time Outsiders’ Risks and Welfare Attitudes
The growth of atypical work has created a divide between insiders, with safe jobs, and outsiders, in fixed-term, part-time, and/or precarious work situations. Due to higher economic risk, outsiders support compensating social policies more than insiders. However, the same consistency has not been found in the attitudes of part-time outsiders. Consequently, this article suggests an expansion from the work-nexus to the care-nexus of welfare when ex…
What sustains feminized part-time work at the gender equality frontier? Evidence from a vignette experiment
Feminized part-time work has been deemed a family policy conundrum yet to be solved by any welfare regime. To identify ways forward, this article examines structural drivers of part-time work decisions through a vignette experiment fielded in the gender-egalitarian context of Norway ( N = 3500). Six theory-grounded factors are tested in this multidimensional, causal framework: partner income level, physical and cognitive household labour burdens,…
Formative personal experiences: How benefit recipiency and income changes shape perceptions of system abuse
Perceptions that others will contribute their fair share are fundamental to the legitimacy of the political system. To better understand how these perceptions take shape beyond the influence of political narratives and socializations, this paper investigates the role of the formative personal experiences of benefit recipiency and income changes in explaining views on welfare abuse as well as tax evasion. Theoretically, both increasing identificat…
The formation of family policy attitudes: The Role of Justice Perceptions in the Division of Household Labour
Welfare state attitudes make up an interactive feedback loop of defining popular legitimacy and future policy trajectories. Understanding attitudinal drivers is thus essential political knowledge. However, as existing research is mainly based on the work-nexus of welfare, this article expands the literature to the welfare state's care-nexus, examining drivers of family policy attitudes. We argue that conventional attitude predictors of self-inter…
Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life
How does cognitive household labour – the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs – influence decisions about whether and how to participate in public life? Studies suggest women take on the vast majority of this load, yet the impact of these private sector inequalities on participation in public life is underexplored. To make progress on these questions, we contribute new causal evidence about the effec…
How can we improve gender balance in local government? Family-friendly policies and static ambition in England
Women’s representation in European local governments remains stagnant at around one-third of councillors. One explanation for this longstanding gender gap relates to structural barriers blocking the supply of women candidates, including working practices which are not compatible with caring responsibilities. Yet, so far we do not know whether measures governments can implement to remedy this, including reimbursing care expenses and remote working…
Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (4 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works)