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Bisin, Alberto; Topa, Giorgio; Verdier, Thierry – Journal of Political Economy, 2004
This paper presents an empirical analysis of a choice-theoretic model of cultural transmission. In particular, we use data from the General Social Survey to estimate the structural parameters of a model of marriage and child socialization along religious lines in the United States. The observed intermarriage and socialization rates are consistent…
Descriptors: Protestants, Marriage, Socialization, Jews