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From shame to game in one hundred years: an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …
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Cultural formation of preferences and assimilation of cultural groups
Pichler, Michael M. - 2010
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...
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The economics of cultural formation of preferences
Pichler, Michael M. - 2010
preferences process is endogenized as resulting out of optimal parental socialization decisions. This framework thus endogenously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272610
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Culture formation and endogenous cultural distance
Pichler, Michael M. - 2008
. Additionally, they can invest into the success that their displayed culture has in the socialization process of their children. We … cultural group. Furthermore, they will always invest into their socialization success. Nevertheless, these investments are … the 'melting pot' theory of integration of cultural groups. …
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What is a peer? The role of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects
Halliday, Timothy J.; Kwak, Sally - 2008
We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health Survey (Add Health) to construct two network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268830
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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition
de Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023
Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between...
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Self-selection, socialization, and risk perception: an empirical study
Weisenfeld, Ursula; Ott, Ingrid - 2009
relationship between area of study (self-selection) and progress of study (socialization) on the one hand and risk perception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265259
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Social diffusion of religious values within families: Conceptual and methodological considerations
Arránz Becker, Oliver; Lois, Daniel; Steinbach, Anja - 2016
transmission. In addition to the finding that experiences during religious socialization in the parental home have a stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475135
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Rankings games
Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit - 2011
the taste for science by a taste for publication. We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316925
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
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