Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51677 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5413
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
socioemotional skills
cultural transmission
family influence
JEL: 
D10
I20
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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