On the Evolution of Norms in Strategic Environments

Sebastiano Della Lena () and Pietro Dindo
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Sebastiano Della Lena: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

No 2019: 16, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari"

Abstract: In a heterogeneous population divided into two cultural groups, we investigate the intergenerational dynamics of norms, modeled as preferences over actions, as depending on strategic environments. We find that environments with strategic complementarity or substitutability lead to different long-run norms and horizontal socializations. When players face many games within the same class, under complementarity agents converge to the same norm and socialization is high, under substitutability norms may diverge or become neutral and socialization is low. However, for specific games, partial convergence can arise under complementarity, providing an explanation to cultural heterogeneity, and partial divergence can arise under substitutability.

Keywords: Evolution of Norms; Cultural Transmission; Endogenous preferences; Cultural Heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C7 D9 I20 J15 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-gth and nep-mic
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