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- Title
'BEYOND THE MELTING POT': CULTURAL TRANSMISSION, MARRIAGE, AND THE EVOLUTION OF ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS TRAITS.
- Authors
Bisin, Alberto; Verdier, Thierry
- Abstract
This paper presents an economic analysis of the intergenerational transmission of ethnic and religious traits through family socialization and marital segregation decisions. Frequency of intragroup marriage (homogamy), as well as socialization rates of religious and ethnic groups, depend on the group's share of the population: minority groups search more intensely for homogamous mates, and spend more resources to socialize their offspring. This pattern generally induces a dynamics of the distribution of ethnic and religious traits which converges to a culturally heterogeneous stationary population. Existing empirical evidence bearing directly and indirectly on the implications of the model is discussed.
- Subjects
SEGREGATION; HOMOGAMY; MARRIAGE; ETHNIC groups; RELIGIONS
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, Vol 115, Issue 3, p955
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/003355300554953