Intergenerational transmission of homophobia

Sammanfattning: Previous studies are divided in the question if there exist an intergen- erational transmission of homophobia, whereas some have found a weak or no relationship, while others found a positive relationship. This paper uses the epidemiological approach by Fernandez (2010). The method regress sec- ond generation immigrant on ancestral country values. The main idea of the method is to identify the effects of culture throughout exploration in economic outcomes of individuals who share similar institutional and economic environ- ment, while the social beliefs differ. The level of democracy is used to proxy the attitude against homosexuals in the parents birth country, since previous studies have proven a strong relationship between the two. The results are that there exist a significant transmission from the father to the child, while the relationship is not significant from mother to child. Furthermore a series of robustness test are perform to ensure the validity of the estimate.