| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w12364
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 12364
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| A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps |
| Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
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| 发表日期 | 2006-07-24
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| 出版年 | 2006
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one%u2019s group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main results. First, some individuals expected to make group-specific capital investments are worse off because their observed decision is used as a litmus test of group loyalty %u2014 creating a tradeoff between human capital and cooperation among the group. Second, there exist equilibria which exhibit bi-polar human capital investment behavior by individuals of similar ability. Third, as social mobility increases this bi-polarization increases. The models predictions are consistent with the bifurcation of distinctively black names in the mid-1960s, the erosion of black neighborhoods in the 1970s, accusations of %u2018acting white,%u2019 and the efficacy of certain programs designed to encourage human capital acquisition. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12364
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570021
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Roland G. Fryer, Jr.. A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps. 2006.
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