Social Capital and the Family: Evidence that Strong Family Ties Cultivate Civic Virtues
研究发现家庭纽带与公民美德正相关，强家庭培养出更利他和守规的个体，挑战了“非道德家庭主义”观点。
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.