Research Methods Festival Programme
Programme for: Friday 2nd July pm
Venue: See conference programme
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Cross national research: analysis issues
2:00 – 5:30
Cross-national comparative analysis: do we need special methods?
Chair: Jackie Scott, University of Cambridge
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Issues
in the global comparative analysis of human rights violations Todd Landman, University of Essex Extant global comparative research has developed from early studies that sought to explore the economic and political explanations for the variation in human rights to more specific analyses that examine the relationship between foreign aid and human rights, refugee policy and human rights, foreign direct investment and human rights, and the international law and human rights. In addition to the standard difficulties associated with time-series autocorrelation and heteroskedasticity, there are remaining challenges with operationalising economic and social rights for comparative statistical analysis, and overcoming ideological biases and problems of variance truncation in extant measures of civil and political rights. Slides |
| 2:45 | The Structure of Women's Employment in Comparative Perspective Becky Pettit and Jenifer
Hook, University of Washington A central debate in studies
of women's labor force participation concerns the influence of demographic
and economic structures and institutional conditions on female employment.
In this paper we analyze social survey data from 19 countries using
multi-level modelling methods in an effort to synthesize structural
and institutional accounts for variation in women's employment.
While observed demographic characteristics show much consistency
in their relationship to women's employment across countries, there
is significant variation in the effect of demographic characteristics
on women's employment across countries and our results show that
federally supported childcare may be particularly influential for
the employment of married women and women with young children. |
| 3:30 | Tea |
| 4:00 | Comparing the effects of work-life balance on health in Finland, UK and Japan Tarani Chandola and
Mel Bartley, University College London Although there have been a number of studies on the effects of multiple roles on health and how a combination of these work and family roles may be either advantageous (role enhancement) or disadvantageous (role strain) for health, there has been relatively little investigation on the psychosocial content of such roles. Work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict could arise from conflicts between inability to combine multiple roles and result in stress and ill health. This paper examines whether both types of conflict mediate between the association of multiple roles with health, in countries with differing welfare state arrangements and social norms on family and childcare. The results from cohorts in the UK, Finland and Japan suggest that the poorer mental health of single parents is partly explained by their higher levels family- to-work conflict. Comparing all three cohorts, Japanese women had the greatest conflict and poorest mental health while Helsinki women had the lowest conflict and best mental health.
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| 4:45 | Discussant: Geoff Evans, Nuffield College, Oxford |
| 5:00 | General Discussion |
