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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 642

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Household Behavior: General
Education and Research Institutions: General
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Thema
Peer Groups
Cultural Transmission
Cultural Diversity
Oblique Transmission
Kinder
Bildung
Soziale Integration
Eltern
Soziale Gruppe

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Sáez-Martí, María
Sjögren, Anna
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
2005

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Sáez-Martí, María
  • Sjögren, Anna
  • The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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