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Smart and Dangerous: How Cognitive Skills Drive the Intergenerational Transmission of Retaliation

Ruby Henry

No 5413, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: A need exists to understand how people develop an aggressive, retaliatory conflict resolution policy vs. a more passive reconciliation stance. I contribute a choice-theoretic model that explains how cognitive skills drive the transmission of conflict resolution policies. A child’s resolution policy depends on parental effort and the influence of the outside environment. The model has the implication that high-cognitive parents socialize children to their conflict resolution culture more successfully than parents with low cognitive skills. Indeed, I test the model using the cognitive skills and conflict resolution skills of parents and children from the UK National Childhood Development Survey. I find that the parent’s effort is reinforced by the prevalence of their conflict resolution values in society. The data confirm that children of retaliating high-cognitive parents are more likely to be socialized to that resolution culture than children of low-cognitive retaliating parents when retaliation is more prominent in society.

Keywords: socioemotional skills; cultural transmission; family influence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 I20 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2010-12
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