Dynamics of social norms in the city - Université de Rennes Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Regional Science and Urban Economics Année : 2015

Dynamics of social norms in the city

Résumé

We study how in a city either opposite social norms remain or a particular code of behavior spreads and ultimately prevails. We develop a multicommunity model with overlapping generations. When young, an individual chooses a certain level of educational effort. The crucial feature is that the decision is influenced by peers living in the area who favor a social norm either valuing education or discrediting it. When an adult, an individual who cares about both her offspring’s expected income and the social norm chooses the family’s location. Endogenous location leads to different patterns of social norms in the city. We identify two types of urban equilibrium: a culturally-balanced city where social norms are distributed evenly among urban areas and where the rate of education is the same in each urban area and a culturally-divided city where urban areas oppose on their prevailing social norm and exhibit different rates of education. We then study the dynamics of social norms. We show that there are multiple long-run patterns of social norms. A particular steady state is achieved depending on the initial distribution support for social norms in the population. Finally, we show that a public policy promoting social integration can lead, in the long run, to a population unanimously discrediting education. Enforcing social integration can obtain less education than allowing the culturally-divided city to arise.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
Dynamics of Social Norms in the City-1.pdf (519.09 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Loading...

Dates et versions

halshs-01114139 , version 1 (11-04-2015)

Identifiants

Citer

Fabien Moizeau. Dynamics of social norms in the city. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 51, pp.70-87. ⟨10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2015.01.005⟩. ⟨halshs-01114139⟩
242 Consultations
419 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More