Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from India
基于印度哈里亚纳邦近5500名青少年及其父母的调查数据，研究发现父母歧视性态度使子女持有类似观点的概率提高约11个百分点，母亲影响大于父亲，且该效应在表列种姓社区更强。
This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting with severe discrimination against women and girls. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, about the appropriate roles and rights of women and girls) collected from nearly 5500 adolescents attending 314 schools in the state of Haryana, and their parents. We find that when a parent holds a more discriminatory attitude, his or her child is about 11 percentage points more likely to hold the view. We find that parents hold greater sway over students’ gender attitudes than their peers do, and that mothers influence children’s gender attitudes more than fathers. Parental attitudes influence child attitudes more in Scheduled Caste communities and student gender attitudes are positively correlated with behaviours such as interacting with children of the opposite gender.