Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81315 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 967
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
I establish a positive relationship between family ties and civic virtues, as captured by disapproval of tax and benefit cheating, corruption, and a range of other dimensions of exploiting others for personal gain. I find that family ties are a complement to social capital, using within country evidence from 83 nations and data on second generation immigrants in 29 countries with ancestry in 85 nations. Strong families cultivate universalist values and produce more civic and altruistic individuals. The results provide a constructive role for families in promoting family values, which challenge an ‘amoral familism.’ Moreover, strong families are complementary with more developed and democratic institutions. The results provide a constructive role for families in promoting family values that support successful societies with a high state and fiscal capacity.
Subjects: 
Family ties
Civic
Family values
Cultural transmission
Altruism
Social capital
JEL: 
A13
H26
P16
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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