The transmission of continuous cultural traits in endogenous social networks

T. Hellmann and F. Panebianco

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.

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Year of publication:	[2018]
Authors:	Hellmann, Tim ; Panebianco, Fabrizio
Publisher:	Bielefeld, Germany : Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW), Bielefeld University
Subject:	Cultural transmission \| Social networks \| Persistence of cultural traits \| NetworkFormation \| Soziales Netzwerk \| Social network \| Theorie \| Theory \| Kulturelle Identität \| Cultural identity