Measuring Tolerant Behavior

Caterina Liberati, Longaretti Riccarda () and Alessandra Michelangeli
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Longaretti Riccarda: University of Milan-Bicocca, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milan, Italy

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2021, vol. 241, issue 2, 149-171

Abstract: This paper addresses the issue of measuring tolerance, viewed as a multifaceted phenomenon involving several different social domains. We develop a multidimensional index for Likert-scale data, characterized by the following features: (i) it reflects the individual’s intensity of tolerant attitudes towards each social domain; (ii) the index can be broken down by dimension in order to determine the contribution of each dimension to overall tolerance; (iii) the index combines the different dimensions of tolerance using a weighted scheme that reflects the importance of each dimension in determining the overall level of tolerance. To show how this new measure of tolerance works in practice, we carry out a case study using an Italian recent survey asking the opinion of university students about different subjects, such as interreligious dialog, women/religion relationship, religion/death relationship, homosexuality, and multicultural society.

Keywords: tolerance; economic behavior; social interactions; multidimensional index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 C43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2019-0030

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