Collaborative Research: Social Norms, Trust, and Intergenerational Flow of Innovations

生产力的提高和经济增长部分取决于改进技术的采用，而改进技术又取决于有关新技术的信息的传播。 年轻人往往比他们的父母更早了解新技术，因为他们的父母拥有生产资源，而且固守旧技术，可能不相信他们从年轻人那里学到的新信息。 另一方面，年轻人可能不信任老年人，可能不会透露他们认为老年人不会接受的适当信息，从而减缓技术进步和经济增长。 本研究项目将运用理论和实验研究社会规范如何影响技术信息的代际流动，以及如何最好地解决这种信息流动中的摩擦。 除了信息的代际传递之外，这项研究还研究了技术信息的代际流动是否存在性别层面。 这项研究的结果可能会影响设计有效的信息干预，诱导代际知识流动，以加快技术进步。调查结果将提供宝贵信息，说明增强青年妇女经济权能方面的制约因素。这项研究的结果有可能提高创新的速度，加速经济增长，提高美国人的生活水平。 这个研究项目将利用与150所初中的非政府组织合作伙伴的合作，研究知识代际流动的障碍。该项目的重点是家长对学生学校教授的技术知识的水平和相关性的看法，以及学生对家长看法的评估。它审查了家长和学生是否持有系统偏见的信念;将这些偏见与按性别为家长和学生的不同配置规定的传统角色联系起来;并衡量信念对代际沟通模式、家长获取新技术知识和赋予青年权力的影响。研究分四个阶段进行。首先，基线调查将收集以学校为基础的技术教育计划参与者的家庭人口统计数据。其次，PI将在访谈中了解家长和学生的信念;并向随机的家长和学生提供技术信息。第三，方案指标将调查分配给青年的生产性投入，供他们在家里生产，家长获得新的技术知识，以及学生和家长之间的沟通模式。最后，本研究将跟踪两个学年后信息干预对生产模式的影响。 该研究成果有可能加快创新步伐，加速经济增长，从而提高美国人的生活水平。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Increased productivity and economic growth partly depends on adoption of improved technology which in turn depends on the transmission of information about new technologies. Young people tend to learn about new technologies before their parents who own productive resources and are wedded to old technologies and may not trust the new information they learn from the young. On the other hand, young people may mistrust elders and may not reveal appropriate information they think elders will not accept, thus slowing technical progress and economic growth. This research project will use theory and experiments to study how social norms affect the intergenerational flow of technological information and how best to solve this friction in information flow. In addition to intergenerational transmission of information, the research also studies whether there is a gender dimension to the intergenerational flow of technological information. The results of this study could influence the design of effective information interventions that induce intergenerational flows of knowledge to speed up technical progress. The results will offer valuable information on the constraints in the economic empowerment of young women. The results of this research has the potential to increase the pace of innovation and accelerate economic growth, and improve the living standards of Americans. This research project will leverage a collaboration with NGO partners in 150 junior high schools to study the barriers in intergenerational flow of knowledge. The project focuses on beliefs held by parents regarding the level and relevance of students’ school-taught technical knowledge, as well as students’ assessments of parents’ beliefs. It examines whether parents and students hold systematically biased beliefs; relates these biases to conventional roles prescribed for different configurations of parents and students by gender; and measures the effects of beliefs on intergenerational communication patterns, parents’ acquisition of new technical knowledge, and the empowerment of youth. The research proceeds in four stages. First, a baseline survey will collect household demographics of participants in a school-based technical education program. Second, the PIs will elicit parents’ and students’ beliefs in interviews; and deliver technical information to a random subset of parents and students. Third, the PIs will survey productive inputs allocated to youth for their home production, the acquisition of new technical knowledge among parents as well as communication patterns between students and parents. Finally, the study will track the impact of the information interventions on production patterns after two school years. The results of this research has the potential to increase the pace of innovation and accelerate economic growth, thus improving the living standards of Americans.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.