Raising Children to Work Hard: Altruism, Work Norms, and Social Insurance
构建模型分析利他父母为何要培养子女的工作规范，并发现慷慨的社会保险会削弱父母培养这种规范的动机，实证支持了这一预测。
Empirically, disincentive effects on work of generous welfare state arrangements tend to appear with a substantial time lag. One explanation is that norms concerning work and benefit dependency delay such effects. We model altruistic parents' economic incentives for instilling such work norms in their children. Anticipated economic support from parents may reduce work effort, and parental altruism makes threats to withdraw such support noncredible. Instilling norms mitigates this problem. However, generous social insurance arrangements tend to weaken parents' incentives to instill such norms in their children. We find empirical support for this prediction.