Parents' Use of Incentives Varies By Culture and Is Linked to Children's Moral Reasoning

Using cross-national surveys and child-friendly experiments, I show that parents (n= 407) living in cultures with higher vs. lower corruption levels use more incentives for action at home (Study 1), and that often-incentivized U.S. children (n= 84) fail to distinguish between ethical and unethical (e.g., bribes) favor exchanges (Study 2).