A Commentary on “Gender Bias in Parental Attitude

An Experimental Approach” by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11620432
AutoresOlle Hammar (0000-0002-2341-3751, Linnaeus University, autor correspondente), Carl Bonander (0000-0002-1189-9950, University of Gothenburg), Gunther Bensch (0000-0001-7964-7533, RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research), Niklas Jakobsson (0000-0002-7143-8793, Karlstad Business School, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden), Abel Brodeur (0000-0003-3980-4324, University of Ottawa)
Ano2025
Volume62
Fascículo6
Páginas1791-1799
Data de publicação2025-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDemography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
EditoraSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1215/00703370-12344620
PMID41346336
OpenAlexW4417029871
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas6

Begum et al. (2018) examined gender bias in parental attitudes using an experimental approach in rural Bangladesh. Households were reported as randomly assigned to treatment conditions in a lab-in-the-field allocation task. We show that the group assignment was inherited from Islam (2019), a previous, nonrandomized experiment conducted in the same region. The lack of randomization contradicts the design descriptions provided by the authors in Begum et al. (2018) and elsewhere and raises concerns about the validity of comparisons across treatment groups. This also points to serious shortcomings in the reporting and transparency of the study design-issues that mirror those that led to the retraction of Islam (2019) from the European Economic Review

Islam · Population · Random assignment · Randomization · Research design · Transparency (behavior · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics