TY - BOOK ID - 136676622 TI - Social Norms Theory and Development Economics PY - 2015 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Abuse KW - Access to finance KW - Adoption KW - Alcohol KW - Altruism KW - Anthropologist KW - Anthropology KW - Beliefs KW - Child care KW - Child-rearing KW - Circumcision KW - Civil war KW - Condom KW - Condoms KW - Cooperation KW - Cultural differences KW - Culture & development KW - Cultures KW - Developing countries KW - Development efforts KW - Development policy KW - Discrimination KW - Domestic violence KW - Drugs KW - Economic growth KW - Education of women KW - Employment opportunities KW - Ethics KW - Ethics & belief systems KW - Ethnicity KW - Ethnographic evidence KW - Ethnography KW - Exogamy KW - Family members KW - Fatherhood KW - Female "circumcision" KW - Female genital cutting KW - Female genital mutilation KW - Female sexuality KW - Gender KW - Gender & social development KW - Gender equality KW - Gender norms KW - Gender relations KW - Gender roles KW - Genital cutting KW - Girls KW - Health impact KW - Health, nutrition and population anthropology KW - Household income KW - Household work KW - Households KW - Human behavior KW - Human behaviour KW - Husbands KW - Impact on children KW - Land tenure KW - Living-standards KW - Machismo KW - Mandates KW - Masculinity KW - Maternity leave KW - Media KW - Modernization KW - Moral norms KW - Morality KW - Mother KW - Mutilation KW - Ownership of land KW - Parental leave KW - Participatory process KW - Peace KW - Peer pressure KW - Policy-makers KW - Political change KW - Population policies KW - Pregnancies KW - Principles KW - Property KW - Property rights KW - Public policy KW - Public service KW - Religion KW - Ritual KW - Role models KW - Rural communities KW - Safe sex KW - Sex KW - Sexual violence KW - Sexuality KW - Smarriage KW - Soap operas KW - Social change KW - Social development KW - Social group KW - Social inequality KW - Social information KW - Social interactions KW - Social issues KW - Social life KW - Social marketing KW - Social meanings KW - Social norms KW - Social policy KW - Social practice KW - Social pressure finance and financial sector development KW - Social psychology KW - Social security KW - Social status KW - Societies KW - Sociobiology KW - Substance abuse KW - Taboo KW - Teenagers KW - Television network KW - Unplanned pregnancies KW - Violence against women KW - War KW - Women KW - Young men KW - Young people KW - Young women UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136676622 AB - Social norms affect almost every aspect of people's lives, and can be an obstacle to or support economic development. This paper outlines what social norms are and how they work, providing examples from everyday life and from development case studies. Sometimes not much can be done about changing undesirable social norms. In those cases, development economists need to be aware of how the existence of those norms can impact the effects of the policies they advocate. But of particular importance to development economists is the ways in which social norms can be changed, at least under some circumstances. Understanding of social norm change is still patchy at best, but the paper outlines the theoretical underpinnings of change, with empirical evidence from various policies aimed at changing social norms. However, some of those policies raise ethical concerns that would require attention. ER -