Cultural formation of preferences and assimilation of cultural groups

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Based on the cultural formation of continuous preferences framework of Pichler [16], this paper analyzes the evolution of preferences and behavior in a two cultural groups setting. We show that the qualitative dynamic properties depend crucially on what parents perceive as the optimal preferences for their children to adopt. Under inter- generationally fixed optimal preferences, the preferences of the cultural groups will always stay distinct. If the optimal preferences coincide with those derived from the representative group behavior, then a multitude of convergence path types can realize. These contain both an inter-generational assimilation process toward the same preference point, as well as inter-generational dissimilation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers ; No. 438

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Noncooperative Games ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: Continuous Preferences ; Assimilation ; Cultural Groups ; Endogenous Preferences ; Preference Evolution ; Socialization ; Kulturpsychologie ; Sozialisation ; Soziale Integration ; Soziale Werte ; Overlapping Generations ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Pichler, Michael M.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Bielefeld University, Institute of Mathematical Economics (IMW)
• (where): Bielefeld
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/43789
• URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:361-14290
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET