On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption

Hauk, Esther; Saez-Marti, Maria

doi:10.2139/ssrn.189433

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“…Our paper is related more generally to the large literature on cultural transmission and norms and the effect of cultural factors on institutions and economic development, including Bisin andVerdier (2001, 2010), Gorodnichenko and Roland (2016), Hauk and Saez Marti (2002), Saez Marti and Zenou (2012), and Tabellini (2008. A common assumption in this literature is imperfect empathy, which corresponds to the paternalistic element in our theory: parents use their own preferences to evaluate children's choices.…”

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Parenting With Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Doepke¹,

Zilibotti²

2017

Econometrica

270

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We develop a theory of parent‐child relations that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind, 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian altruism and paternalism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing children's preferences or by imposing direct restrictions on their choice sets. Different parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive) emerge as equilibrium outcomes and are affected both by parental preferences and by the socioeconomic environment. Parenting style, in turn, feeds back into the children's welfare and economic success. The theory is consistent with the decline of authoritarian parenting observed in industrialized countries and with the greater prevalence of more permissive parenting in countries characterized by low inequality.

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Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 95%

Parenting With Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Doepke¹,

Zilibotti²

2017

Econometrica

270

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“…The anonymity privilege that large cities offer could facilitate such behavior. Thus differences in social ethical structure based upon city size, as suggested by Hauk and Sáez-Marti (2002), can systematically be transmitted to students.…”

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On the Determinants of Educational Corruption: The Case of Ukraine

Shaw

Katsaiti

Pecoraro

2014

Contemporary Economic Policy

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This article utilizes a unique data set to examine the relationship between a group of potential explanatory variables and educational corruption in Ukraine. Our corruption controls include bribing on exams, on term papers, for credit, and for university admission. We use a robust nonparametric approach in order to estimate the probability of bribing across the four different categories. This approach is shown to be robust to a variety of different types of endogeneity often encountered under commonly assumed parametric specifications. Our main findings indicate that corruption perceptions, past bribing behavior, and the perceived criminality of bribery are significant factors for all four categories of bribery. From a policy perspective, we argue that when bribe control enforcement is difficult, anti‐corruption education programs targeting social perceptions of corruption could be appropriate. (JEL K42, J16, C14)

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“…Also closely related is the work of Hauk and Saez-Marti (2002) on the cultural transmission of corruption. While their application is different from mine, they also rely on the Bisin and Verdier (2001) framework and assume that agents can either be honest or dishonest.…”

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“…Here, as in and Hauk and Saez-Marti (2002), parents are assumed to form rational expectations on the evolution of values from their generation to the next. For completeness, note that the total welfare of an adult is composed of the direct gratification he gets from his labor market activity and of the utility derived from cultural transmission.…”

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Unemployment Insurance and Cultural Transmission: Theory and Application to European Unemployment

Michau

2013

Journal of the European Economic Association

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This paper emphasizes the two-way causality between the provision of unemployment insurance and the cultural transmission of work ethic. Values affect the size of the moral-hazard problem and, hence, the policy to be implemented. Conversely, when parents rationally choose how much effort to exert to raise their children to work hard, they form expectations on the policy that will be implemented by the next generation. In this context, I determine the dynamics of preferences across generations and show that the different cultural traits, i.e. high and low work ethics, are complementary.The model could generate a lag between the introduction of unemployment insurance and a deterioration of the work ethic. Relying on a calibration, I argue that it can account for a substantial fraction of the history of European unemployment since World War II. As this explanation is compatible with the co-existence of generous unemployment insurance and low unemployment in the 1950s and 1960s, it could be seen as an alternative to the dominant story that relies on the occurrence of large shocks since the 1970s. Supportive empirical evidence is provided.

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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption

Cited by 85 publications

References 14 publications

Parenting With Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Parenting With Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

On the Determinants of Educational Corruption: The Case of Ukraine

Unemployment Insurance and Cultural Transmission: Theory and Application to European Unemployment

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