Quality of Institutions and Transmission of Social Traits: The Case of Tolerance

Abstract

Tolerance-willingness to accept others' feelings and beliefs-who are different from usis one of the important humankind virtues. It is a valuable asset for the young generation. Tolerance equips the children with the potential to bear diversity, interact with others who are different and to get chances of success in this integrated world. This study investigates whether the quality of institutions plays any role to induce parents' willingness to teach and instill tolerance in their children. To study this relationship, we used a survey measure of tolerance from World Value Survey (WVS) for a sample of 57 countries over the period 1984-2014. The empirical results show that overall quality of institutions strengthens parents' willingness to instill tolerance in their children. In a comparative analysis, institutional measures control of corruption and democratic accountability are more conducive for parents' willingness to teach tolerance to their kids. These findings remain robust to various robustness checks. JEL Classifications C33 . D73 . K42Recently, economists have begun to pay attention to institutional and cultural roots of economics. They are not only considering their separate effects on various socioeconomic outcomes, but also observing how they interact with each other (Alesina and Giuliano 2013). The literature shows that market oriented institutions and policies affect people's way of thinking of others and cultural attitudes (Bowles 1998;Weiss 2003;Mayda and Rodrik 2005;Berggren and Nilsson 2013).

Approximation of crime, poverty, and misery index across quasi‐democratic and dictatorship regimes in Pakistan: Static and dynamic analysis

“…These results invite serious questions regarding the performance of political leadership during the democratic governments in Pakistan. Meanwhile, the literature exhibits that institutional quality is one of the key factors in reducing the crime rate (Ajide, 2019; Majeed, 2019). This implicitly strengthens that institutional stability performed better during the dictators' era than quasi‐democracy.…”