Teaching Norms: Direct Evidence of Parental Transmission

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brouwer, Thijs; Galeotti, Fabio; Villeval, Marie Claire
• 署名单位: Tilburg University; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (ENS de LYON); Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1; Universite Jean Monnet; Universite Lyon 2; Universita Ca Foscari Venezia; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueac074
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 872-887
• 关键词: altruistic punishment; field experiment; CHILDREN; COOPERATION; ECONOMICS; EVOLUTION; socialization; ENFORCEMENT; matrilineal; BEHAVIOR

摘要

We examine the educative role played by parents in social norm transmission. Using a field experiment, we study whether parents enforce and comply more with norms when their children are present compared to when they are not. We compare similar parents when or after they drop off or pick up their children at school. We find that parents accompanying children, in contrast to parents alone, are more likely to punish norm violators and to provide help to strangers when there is no violation. They also tend to substitute more direct punishment with withholding help as a means of indirect punishment.