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采用改进的技术，而采用改进的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学习新技术，他们拥有生产资源，并与旧技术结合在一起，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信息流动中的这种摩擦。除了信息的代际传递外，本研究还研究了技术信息的代际流动是否存在性别维度。本研究的结果可能会影响有效的信息干预的设计，以诱导知识的代际流动，以加速技术进步。研究结果将提供宝贵的资料，说明在赋予年轻妇女经济权力方面的制约因素。这项研究的结果有可能加快创新的步伐，加速经济增长，提高美国人的生活水平。该研究项目将与150所初中的非政府组织伙伴合作，研究代际知识流动的障碍。该项目侧重于家长对学生在学校所学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价。它检查家长和学生是否有系统性的偏见；将这些偏见与不同性别的家长和学生的传统角色联系起来；并测量了信仰对代际交流模式、父母获得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，在访谈中，pi会引出家长和学生的信念；并将技术信息随机传递给一部分家长和学生。第三，调查将调查分配给青少年家庭生产的生产性投入、父母对新技术知识的获取以及学生与父母之间的沟通模式。最后，该研究将在两个学年之后追踪信息干预对生产模式的影响。这项研究的结果有可能加快创新的步伐，加速经济增长，从而提高美国人的生活水平。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.