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- Title
Social Capital and the Family: Evidence that Strong Family Ties Cultivate Civic Virtues.
- Authors
Ljunge, Martin
- 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. 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.
- Subjects
CAPITAL budget; INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics); ASSETS (Accounting); SOCIAL capital; TAXATION
- Publication
Economica, 2015, Vol 82, Issue 325, p103
- ISSN
0013-0427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ecca.12102