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Chapter 9. The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization

Bisin, Alberto; Verdier, Thierry - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 339-416). 2011

This paper presents a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on cultural transmission and socialization. It …

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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 …

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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 …

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