Raising Children to Work Hard: Altruism, Work Norms and Social Insurance

By A. Lindbeck, Sten Nyberg. Social Science Research Network, 2006

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Children who can count on support from altruistic parents may not try hard to succeed in the labor market. Moreover, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms which later cause their children to experience guilt or shame associated with failure to support themselves. While social insurance pools risk across families, we show that it also creates a free-rider problem among parents in terms of norm formation. We also examine the formation of norms requiring children to support their parents financially in old age.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Kinship, Incentives, and Evolution (2010, background): “…and the consumption-utility function is 11 Esther Hauk and Maria Saez-Martí (2002) use a similar framework to analyze parents’ incentives to foster honesty, and Lindbeck and Nyberg (2006) analyze parents’ incentive to instill a work norm in their children. of the CRRA form, u( y) = y1−ρ/(1 − ρ).”
Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism (2008, unknown): “Lindbeck and Nyberg (2006) focus on the negative effects of public transfers on parents’ incentives to instill a work ethic in their children.”
The Scope of Cooperation: Norms and Incentives (2007, unknown): “∂V pk ∂θ = αe−αY k 2 [1− e−αS] ∂Y k ∂θ n de−θ Y k − [(w − l)π(Y ) + l] o (34)”
Civil Society And The State: The Interplay Between Cooperation And Minimum Wage Regulation (2011, background): “6See also Bisin and Verdier (2000), Lindbeck and Nyberg (2006) and Guiso et al. (2007b) for alternative formulation of transmission of beliefs and norms from parents to children.”
Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences (2011, unknown): “A neat example of how the welfare state may shape preferences with regard to labor supply is Lindbeck and Nyberg (2006).”
Alcohol Availability, Prenatal Conditions, and Long-Term Economic Outcomes (2017, background): “…sample. alcohol availability, prenatal conditions 1175 arrangements may have exacerbated the effects on earnings by weakening labor supply incentives, by lowering demand for low-skilled workers through high minimum wages, or by weakening parents’ investment incentives (Lindbeck and Nyberg 2006).”