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Shifting Grounds: Social Norms and the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth

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  • Calvi, Rossella
  • Donald, Aletheia
  • Montalvao, Joao

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How do social norms shape the intergenerational allocation of land, particularly regarding gender equity? We combine experimental and administrative data from Senegal with a model of social interactions to study how parental preferences and community norms influence land allocation to sons and daughters. A choice experiment that randomizes land allocations and normative cues reveals that parents are more responsive to community norms when allocating land to daughters—a pattern subsequently borne out in administrative records. Simulations show that this asymmetry generates multiple equilibria in land allocation to daughters but not sons, so even modest shifts in perceived norms can meaningfully reduce gender gaps.

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  • Calvi, Rossella & Donald, Aletheia & Montalvao, Joao, 2026. "Shifting Grounds: Social Norms and the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth," CEPR Discussion Papers 22015, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:22015
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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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