Data and Code for: Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices
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socioeconomiceducationRecord type:
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Bau
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ICP
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Policies may change the incentives that allow cultural practices to persist. To test this, I study matrilocality and patrilocality, kinship traditions that determine daughters’ and sons’ post-marriage residences and thus, which gender lives with and supports parents in their old age. Two separate policy experiments in Ghana and Indonesia show that pension policies reduce the practice of these traditions. I also show that these traditions incentivize parents to invest in the education of children who traditionally co-reside with them. Consequently, when pension plans change cultural practices, they also reduce educational investment. This finding further demonstrates that policy can change culture.Keywords: cultural transmission, cultural change, kinship traditions, intergenerational transfers.
Census data constitute random samples of all individuals in Indonesia and Ghana in the census years.
Census data constitute random samples of all individuals in Indonesia and Ghana in the census years.
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