On the probabilistic transmission of continuous cultural traits

doi:10.1016/j.jet.2018.01.002

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	On the probabilistic transmission of continuous cultural traits
	Cheung, Man-Wah 1; Wu, Jiabin 2
刊名	JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
	2018-03
卷号	174 页码:300-323
关键词	Cultural transmission Continuous trait space Cultural evolution Imitative dynamic Polarization
ISSN号	0022-0531
DOI	10.1016/j.jet.2018.01.002
英文摘要	This paper proposes a framework that generalizes the discrete cultural transmission model of Bisin and Verdier (2001) to a continuous trait setting. We find that the resulting cultural evolutionary dynamic can be characterized as a continuous imitative dynamic in a population game. By using the properties of imitative dynamics, we show that as in Bisin and Verdier, cultural substitutability is the key that leads to cultural heterogeneity. Furthermore, we model an agent's cultural intolerance towards another agent as an increasing function of their cultural distance. We find that the curvature of the cultural intolerance function plays an important role in determining the long-run cultural phenomena. In particular, when the cultural intolerance function is convex, only the most extremely polarized state is a stable limit point. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics
语种	英语
出版者	ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
WOS记录号	WOS:000425564600011
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/682]
专题	上海财经大学
作者单位	1.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Econ, Shanghai, Peoples R China; 2.Univ Oregon, Dept Econ, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cheung, Man-Wah,Wu, Jiabin. On the probabilistic transmission of continuous cultural traits[J]. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY,2018,174:300-323.
APA	Cheung, Man-Wah,&Wu, Jiabin.(2018).On the probabilistic transmission of continuous cultural traits.JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY,174,300-323.
MLA	Cheung, Man-Wah,et al."On the probabilistic transmission of continuous cultural traits".JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY 174(2018):300-323.