全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Inter-generational and Social Transmission of Cultural Traits: Theory and Evidence from Smoking Behavior

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19304
来源ID	Working Paper 19304
	The Inter-generational and Social Transmission of Cultural Traits: Theory and Evidence from Smoking Behavior
	Rebekka Christopoulou; Ahmed Jaber; Dean R. Lillard
发表日期	2013-08-09
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	The extant literature on cultural transmission takes competing cultures in society as given and parental cultural preferences as fixed. We relax these assumptions by endogenizing both societal and parental preferences. We use smoking as a case-study of a cultural trait which did not always exist, and which over time has switched from being perceived as socially acceptable to being perceived as undesirable. In our model, parents' preferred cultural traits depend on the perceived health costs of smoking, and societal preferences depend on the behavior of a tobacco industry that aims to maximize smoking prevalence. We derive conditions for the emergence and persistence of the smoking habit, and find new implications for the relationship between parental and societal influences. We then test explicitly for the validity of our theoretical framework using novel US data. We find that our framework is able to capture features of smoking behavior which existing models are unable to explain.
主题	Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Culture
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19304
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576979
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rebekka Christopoulou,Ahmed Jaber,Dean R. Lillard. The Inter-generational and Social Transmission of Cultural Traits: Theory and Evidence from Smoking Behavior. 2013.