This project develops a cross-culturally validated behavioural measure of social norms and deploys it in a large-scale survey in Uttar Pradesh, India, to assess gender norms and their links to women's social and health outcomes. I lead the methodological work package: designing and pretesting experimental protocols, programming experimental software, running lab sessions in Italy, and coordinating field and lab implementation in India. Preliminary findings on norm measurement have been presented at international conferences. Working paper coming soon.
Collaborators: Sharon Marie Barnhardt, Elena Esposito, Pavan Mamidi, Sonal Garg, Aron Szekely
A research project funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (AEI, 2024–2026) investigating how social norms structure behaviour in political contexts — including discrimination, polarization, and identity-based sorting. I contribute to experimental design, data collection, and econometric analysis.
Principal Investigators: Luis Miller & Amalia Álvarez Benjumea
Why do workers underuse AI tools even when they stand to benefit from them? This project investigates how social norms —in particular, the fear of being judged or sanctioned by colleagues and superiors — lead people to avoid AI assistance altogether, or to conceal their use of it when they do adopt it. We combine experimental and survey methods to identify the normative mechanisms behind AI adoption decisions in workplace settings.
PIs: Isabel Rodríguez Marín & Christina Sarah Hauser
Seed funding: €5,000, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
A five-year longitudinal study in Spain examining how norms around gender and social media use circulate and evolve through peer networks in school classrooms. By tracking network structure and normative beliefs among students over time, the project aims to identify the social mechanisms through which gender norms are maintained or disrupted in young people's on- and off-line environments.
Lane, T., Miller, L., & Rodriguez, I. (2024). 'The normative permissiveness of political partyism.' European Economic Review, 104661. [Open access]
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Rodríguez, I., Santamaría, D., & Miller, L. (2022). 'Electoral competition and affective polarisation in Spain.' South European Society and Politics, 27(1), 27–50. [Open access] · Reprinted in: Torcal, M. (Ed.), Affective Polarisation in Spain, Routledge, 2023.
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Miller, L., & Rodríguez Marín, I. (2023). 'Estrategias experimentales para el análisis y evaluación de políticas públicas. [Experimental strategies for the analysis and evaluation of public policy]' Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas, (31), 56–70. [Open access]
Rodriguez, I. (forthcoming, 2027). 'Mechanisms and Policy Evaluation.' In F. Barbera & F. Bianchi (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopaedia of Analytical Sociology. Edward Elgar.
Miller, L., Rodriguez, I., & Lane, T. (2025). 'Outgroup hostility in politics mirrors the levels of hostility observed in other achieved-identity domains.' Under review.
Through laboratory (N=168; N=155) and survey experiments (N=3,015), we show that discrimination is judged more acceptable when based on politics or football fandom — identities perceived as chosen — than when based on gender or religion. This challenges the idea that the political domain is uniquely permissive of outgroup hostility.
Rodriguez, I., & Matilla-Garcia, M. (2024). 'Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution: Empirical Evidence from Spain.'
Using two original surveys and an original occupational mobility index, we examine how experiences of upward and downward intergenerational mobility shape preferences for redistribution, using exact matching to account for cross-survey heterogeneities. (Available on request or via SSRN.)
Miller, L. M., Rodríguez Marín, I., & Castellanos Quintana, J. V. (2025). Estudio sobre Normas Sociales en la Política, 2024 [Dataset]. DIGITAL.CSIC.
DOI: 10.20350/DIGITALCSIC/17529
Open-access dataset from a stratified national online survey (N=3,015 adults in Spain, June 2024) covering social norms, cultural practices, values, and political attitudes.
Last updated: May 2026