Cultural transmission and discrimination

Saez-Marti, Maria; Zénou, Yves

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2012.04.005

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“…Examples of this thought abound in historical and religious sources. Benjamin Franklin, for example, in his "Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One," writes: 4 Also related are the literatures on the evolutionary selection of human traits (Galor and Moav (2002), Galor and Michalopoulos (2012)) and on contracting with social norms (Kandel and Lazear (1992), Rotemberg (1994), Barron and Gjerde (2008), Fischer and Huddart (2008), Dur and Sol (2010), Hiller (2011), Huck et al (2012) Sáez-Martı and Zenou (2012, and Hiller and Verdier (2014)). Other approaches to studying norms of hard work include Lindbeck et al (1999) and Lindbeck and Nyberg (2006).…”

Section: Work Ethicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social norms of work ethic and incentives in organizations

Forquesato

2016

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Section: Work Ethicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social norms of work ethic and incentives in organizations

Forquesato

2016

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…In contrast, a number of recent studies postulate that cultural transmission hinges on a form of "imperfect empathy" (see Bisin and Verdier 2001, Hauk and Saez-Marti 2002, Gradstein 2007, Klasing 2012, Saez-Marti and Sjoegren 2008, Tabellini 2008, and Saez-Marti and Zenou 2011. According to this approach, parents use their own preferences to evaluate the children's utility, and are driven by a desire to make the children's values similar to their own.…”

Section: Cultural Transmission Human Capital and Non-cognitive Skillsmentioning

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke

Zilibotti

2014

Handbook of Economic Growth

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship hinges on risk tolerance and patience. Parents expecting their children to become entrepreneurs have an incentive to instill these two values in their children. Cultural transmission is Beckerian, i.e., parents are driven by the desire to maximize their children's happiness. We also consider, in an extension, a paternalistic motive for preference transmission. The growth rate of the economy depends on the fraction of the population choosing an entrepreneurial career. How many entrepreneurs there are in a society hinges, in turn, on parental investments in children's patience and risk tolerance. There can be multiple balanced-growth paths, where in faster-growing countries more people exhibit an "entrepreneurial spirit." We discuss applications of models of endogenous preferences to the analysis of socio-economic transformations, such as the British Industrial Revolution. We also discuss empirical studies documenting the importance of culture and preference heterogeneity for economic growth. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: J20, O10, O40

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“…Both these patterns are often observed in real-world systems. For example, it is well documented and analyzed the segregation phenomenon in the United States [48] that brought the rise and the persistence of "ghetto culture", which, in turn, is associated with a poor work ethic [49]. Another identification of such phenomenon is based on the hypothesis of "acting white" by [50], who argue that some minorities are discouraged from achieving in school (coordinating with good-students) by the negative prejudices of ethnic peers.…”

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Investigating Peer and Sorting Effects within an Adaptive Multiplex Network Model

Lipari

Stella²,

Antonioni

2019

Games

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Individuals have a strong tendency to coordinate with all their neighbors on social and economics networks. Coordination is often influenced by intrinsic preferences among the available options, which drive people to associate with similar peers, i.e., homophily. Many studies reported that behind coordination game equilibria there is the individuals' heterogeneity of preferences and that such heterogeneity is given a priori. We introduce a new mechanism which allows us to analyze the issue of heterogeneity from a cultural evolutionary point of view. Our framework considers agents interacting on a multiplex network who deal with coordination issues using social learning and payoff-driven dynamics. Agents form their heterogeneous preference through learning on one layer and they play a pure coordination game on the other layer. People learn from their peers that coordination is good and they also learn how to reach it either by conformism behavior or sorting strategy. We find that the presence of the social learning mechanism explains the rising and the endurance of a segregated society when members are diverse. Knowing how culture affects the ability to coordinate is useful for understanding how to reach social welfare in a diverse society.

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Cultural transmission and discrimination

Cited by 32 publications

References 44 publications

Social norms of work ethic and incentives in organizations

Social norms of work ethic and incentives in organizations

Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Investigating Peer and Sorting Effects within an Adaptive Multiplex Network Model

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