Teaching Norms: Direct Evidence of Parental Transmission

Thijs Brouwer (), Fabio Galeotti () and Marie Claire Villeval
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Thijs Brouwer: Tilburg University [Netherlands]
Fabio Galeotti: GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: 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 bring 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.

Keywords: Field Experiment; Social Norms; Transmission; Parenting; Norm Enforcement. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02
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Published in The Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), pp.872-887. ⟨10.1093/ej/ueac074⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueac074

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