The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization

DRI Working Paper No. 69
By Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier

The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
This paper presents a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on cultural transmission and socialization. It has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Economics, edited by Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, and Matt Jackson, to be published by Elsevier Science in 2010.