Raising Children to Work Hard: Altruism, Work Norms, and Social Insurance*
研究利他主义父母如何通过灌输工作规范促使孩子努力，并分析社会保险对父母间规范形成的搭便车问题，以及孩子赡养父母规范的形成。
Children who can count on support from altruistic parents may not try hard to succeed in the labor market. Moreover, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms which later cause their children to experience guilt or shame associated with failure to support themselves. While social insurance pools risk across families, we show that it also creates a free-rider problem among parents in terms of norm formation. We also examine the formation of norms requiring children to support their parents financially in old age.