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100			_aBau, Natalie _929119
245			_aCan policy change culture: Government pension plans and traditional kinship practices
260			_aThe American Economic Review
300			_a111(6), Jun, 2021: p.1880-1917
520			_aPolicies may change the incentives that allow cultural practices to persist. To test this, I study matrilocality and patrilocality, kinship traditions that determine daughters' and sons' post-marriage residences, and thus, which gender lives with and supports parents in their old age. Two separate policy experiments in Ghana and Indonesia show that pension policies reduce the practice of these traditions. I also show that these traditions incentivize parents to invest in the education of children who traditionally coreside with them. Consequently, when pension plans change cultural practices, they also reduce educational investment. This finding further demonstrates that policy can change culture. – Reproduced
773			_aThe American Economic Review
906			_aPENSION
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