Diva Dhar|Tarun Jain|Seema Jayachandran
Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from India
University of Oxford|Indian School of Business|Northwestern University
paper examines intergenerational transmission gender attitudes india setting severe discrimination women girls use survey data gender attitudes specifically appropriate roles rights women girls collected nearly 5500 adolescents attending 314 schools state haryana parents find parent holds discriminatory attitude child 11 percentage points likely hold view find parents hold greater sway students gender attitudes peers mothers influence childrens gender attitudes fathers parental attitudes influence child attitudes scheduled caste communities student gender attitudes positively correlated behaviours interacting children opposite gender