New:  Palgrave entry on "Cultural Transmission" (with T. Verdier)

Distribution of Wealth. In this papers we study theoretically the dynamics of the distribution of
wealth in an Overlapping Generation economy with bequest and various forms
of redistributive taxation. The first paper has infinitely lived agents

The Distribution of Wealth and Redistributive Policies (with Jess Benhabib)

The second has finitely lived agents

 The distribution of wealth and fiscal policy  in economies with finitely lived agents (with Jess Benhabib)
 

Social Interactions.  The following paper studies static and dynamic economies where agents interact socially, that is where interactions are un-mediated through markets. Nonetheless agents are fully rational.

Rational Expectations Equilibria of Economies with Local Interactions (with U. Horst, and O. Ozgur) forthcoming in   Journal of Economic Theory, 2005.

Cultural Transmission. The following papers study an economic  model of   cultural transmission. Differently  from the cultural transmission models in sociology (e.g., Coleman), anthropology (e.g., Boyd-Richerson), and biology (e.g., Cavalli Sforza-Feldman), socialization  is modeled as a choice of  (paternalistically) altruistic parents.  Socialization  choices  of   parents take different forms, from time spent with children to school choice.

Our empirical work on the subject includes:

•  Bend It Like Beckham: Identity, Socialization, and Assimilation (with E. Patacchini, T. Verdier,  Y.Zenou)
•  Ethmic Identity, Residential Segregation, and Labor-Market Outcomes of Immigration in Europe (with E. Patacchini, T. Verdier, and Y. Zenou)
•  Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration? (with E. Patacchini, T. Verdier, Y. Zenou)     Errata Corrige
•  An Empirical Analysis of Religious Homogamy and Socialization in the U.S  (with G. Topa and T. Verdier), Journal of Political Economy, 112(3), 615-64, 2004.

Our theoretical work on the subject includes:

Some unpublished  papers on the subject:

Cultural Transmission, Socialization and the Population Dynamics of  Multiple State Traits Distributions (with G. Topa and T. Verdier)

Work Ethic and Redistribution: A Cultural Transmission Model of the Welfare State (with T. Verdier)

 

Advertising, Mass Consumption and Capitalism (with J. Benhabib)

 

A paper on Information Extraction, Nonexclusivity and Social Norms (with Danilo Guaitoli), written 15 years ago and just resurrected.