The transmission of continuous cultural traits in endogenous social networks

Tim Hellmann and Fabrizio Panebianco
Additional contact information
Fabrizio Panebianco: Center for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University

No 579, Center for Mathematical Economics Working Papers from Center for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University

Abstract: We study a model of transmission of continuous cultural traits across generations where children learn their cultural trait from their parents and their social environment modeled by a network. Parents can engage in the socialization process of their children by biasing links in the network in order for their children to adopt a cultural trait similar to their own. In this endogenous network, we study the emergence of positive and negative role models, the existence of a steady state cultural trait, its characterization in terms long-run influence of each dynasty, and the speed of convergence.

Keywords: Cultural transmission; Social networks; Persistence of cultural traits; Network Formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9
Date: 2018-01-16
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-soc and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2916814/2916815 First Version, 2018 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bie:wpaper:579

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Center for Mathematical Economics Working Papers from Center for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Bettina Weingarten (bettina.weingarten@uni-bielefeld.de).