Family Ties and Political Participation

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

No 4150, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper we contribute to the investigation of the origin and evolution of social capital over time. We establish these results using within country evidence and looking at the behavior of immigrants from various countries in 32 different destination places.

Keywords: family ties; culture; trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z10 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-cdm, nep-ltv, nep-mig, nep-pol and nep-soc
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Published - published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 817-839

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