The Preadult Origins of Post-Materialism: A Longitudinal Sibling Study

M. Kroh
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Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialistic values in Germany over two decades, this paper provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, we test the combined socialization and scarcity hypothesis against the social learning hypothesis, a prominent rival account of preadult value preference formation. Sibling estimates show that the shared preadult environment does indeed exert lasting effects on the permanent component of preferences for post-materialistic policies. In addition to weak effect of the shared experience of socioeconomic scarcity, we find that the intergenerational transmission of postmaterialism - which is disregarded by Inglehart's original thesis - plays a significant role in value preference acquisition. We discuss the implications of our individual-level findings for forecasts of aggregate-level trends in value change.
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后物质主义的成年前起源:一项纵向兄弟姐妹研究
本文采用一项研究设计,追踪了德国兄弟姐妹二十年来对后物质主义价值观的偏好,为价值偏好的起源提供了新的证据。以Inglehart的价值变化理论为中心,我们检验了社会化和稀缺性的结合假说与社会学习假说的对比,后者是关于成年前价值偏好形成的一个重要的竞争性假说。兄弟姐妹的估计表明,共同的成年前环境确实对后物质主义政策偏好的永久组成部分产生了持久的影响。除了社会经济稀缺性的共同经验的微弱影响外,我们发现后唯物主义的代际传递在价值偏好获得中起着重要作用,而这一点被Inglehart的原始论文所忽视。我们讨论了我们的个人水平的发现对价值变化的总体水平趋势预测的影响。
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