Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion
Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion
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10.3982/qe506
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2011-06
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Eleonora Patacchini;Y. Zenou
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作者：
Eleonora Patacchini;Y. Zenou
我们分析了宗教力量的代际传递，重点是家庭和同伴效应之间的相互作用。我们开发了一个理论模型，表明同伴质量和父母的努力是重要的宗教行为的儿童。然后，我们通过使用美国青少年友谊网络的非常详细的数据集，将模型与数据结合起来。我们发现，对于宗教的父母，宗教的同龄人的比例越高，父母越努力传递他们的宗教信仰，表明文化互补性。对于非宗教的父母，我们得到相反的结果，表明文化的可替代性。关于成功地传输的宗教特征，我们发现，对于宗教的父母，宗教同龄人的分数只有一个间接的影响（通过父母的努力），而对于非宗教的父母，有一个较低的间接影响和统计上显着和相当大的直接影响同龄人的非宗教特征的传输。
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and peer effects. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that both peer quality and parental effort are of importance for the religious behavior of the children. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed dataset of adolescent friendship networks in the United States. We find that, for religious parents, the higher is the fraction of religious peers, the more parents put effort in transmitting their religiosity, indicating cultural complementarity. For non-religious parents, we obtain the reverse, indicating cultural substituability. Concerning the success in transmitting the religious trait, we find that, for religious parents, the fraction of religious peers has only an indirect effect (through parental effort) while, for non-religious parents, there is a lower indirect effect and a statistically significant and sizeable direct effect of peers on the transmission of the non-religious trait.