Politics and parents — Intergenerational transmission of values after a regime shift |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Freiburg, Platz der Alten Synagoge, 79085 Freiburg, Germany;2. BaFin (Federal Financial Supervisory Authority), 53117 Bonn, Germany;3. Walter Eucken Institute, Goethestr. 10, 79100 Freiburg, Germany;1. Ifo Institute — Leibniz-Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Poschingerstr. 5, D-81679 Munich. Germany;2. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Economics, Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany;1. Department of Economics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA;2. Department of Economics, Loyola University Maryland, 4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA;1. Department of Economics and Law, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Via del Castro Laurenziano 9, 00161 Rome, Italy;2. School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E2 4NS London, UK;3. SEAM, University of Messina, Messina, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Exploiting the “natural experiment” of German reunification, we study whether socialism has an enduring effect on people's basic values. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we show that individuals that lived in the German Democratic Republic assign different importance to six out of nine values. The first subsequent generation differs in a similar way from their West German control group. The positive association between parents' and children's values does not significantly differ between East and West German families. The finding is consistent with the notion that parents are motivated by the belief that their own values are the best for the child to have. The effect of intergenerational transmission on the persistence of values is small to moderate. The link tends to be higher if the importance of a domain is more disputed in the population. |
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