Which Club Should I Attend, Dad?: Targeted Socialization and Production

Facundo Albornoz, Antonio Cabrales and Esther Hauk

No 797, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: We study a model that integrates productive and socialization efforts with network choice and parental investments. We characterize the unique symmetric equilibrium of this game. We first show that individuals underinvest in productive and social effort, but that solving only the investment problem can exacerbate the misallocations due to network choice, to the point that it may generate an even lower social welfare if one of the networks is sufficiently disadvantaged. We also study the interaction of parental investment with network choice. We relate these equilibrium results with characteristics that we find in the data on economic co-authorship and field transmission between advisors and advisees.

Keywords: peer effects; network formation; parental involvement; immigrant sorting; cultural identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I28 J15 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-net, nep-soc and nep-ure
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