Arbeitspapier
Peers and Culture
We analyze the evolution of cultural traits when parents purposefully invest resources in order to socialize their children to the cultural traits that maximize child lifetime utility. We assume that children are not passive in their adoption of traits from peers. Instead they are guided by an evaluation of the merit of traits. We show that such evaluation is likely to render this process of oblique transmission biased. We then show that when transmission of traits from society is biased or frequency dependent, cultural diversity is sustainable even when all parents strive to transmit the same trait. We also show that demand for cultural pluralism on the part of parent does not guarantee cultural diversity.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 642
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Household Behavior: General
Education and Research Institutions: General
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- Subject
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Peer Groups
Cultural Transmission
Cultural Diversity
Oblique Transmission
Kinder
Bildung
Soziale Integration
Eltern
Soziale Gruppe
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Sáez-Martí, María
Sjögren, Anna
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
- (where)
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Stockholm
- (when)
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2005
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Sáez-Martí, María
- Sjögren, Anna
- The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
Time of origin
- 2005
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