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Cultural leader and the dynamics of assimilation

Cultural leader and the dynamics of assimilation
Cultural leader and the dynamics of assimilation
This paper studies the population dynamics of cultural traits in a model of intergenerational cultural transmission with a perfectly-forward looking cultural leader. We show that there exists a threshold size in terms of population above which the cultural leader becomes active. We also show that a policy affecting some key parameters has a different impact in the short run and in the long run due to over-reactions or under-reactions of the different cultural groups.
cultural substituability, integration, leaders
0022-0531
374-414
Verdier, Thierry
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Zenou, Yves
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Verdier, Thierry
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Zenou, Yves
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Verdier, Thierry and Zenou, Yves (2018) Cultural leader and the dynamics of assimilation. Journal of Economic Theory, 175, 374-414. (doi:10.1016/j.jet.2018.01.019).

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This paper studies the population dynamics of cultural traits in a model of intergenerational cultural transmission with a perfectly-forward looking cultural leader. We show that there exists a threshold size in terms of population above which the cultural leader becomes active. We also show that a policy affecting some key parameters has a different impact in the short run and in the long run due to over-reactions or under-reactions of the different cultural groups.

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Accepted/In Press date: 31 January 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 6 February 2018
Published date: May 2018
Keywords: cultural substituability, integration, leaders

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Local EPrints ID: 420713
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/420713
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.jet.2018.01.019
ISSN: 0022-0531
PURE UUID: 38fb559e-77c7-4299-95de-e37abe2a4451
ORCID for Yves Zenou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6516-0812

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Date deposited: 11 May 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:11

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Author: Thierry Verdier
Author: Yves Zenou ORCID iD

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