Religious Intermarriage and Socialization in the United States
用美国综合社会调查数据估计文化传播模型的结构参数，发现新教徒、天主教徒和犹太教徒强烈偏好子女认同自身宗教，并为此付出代价，其人口动态与线性外推预测截然不同。
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 with Protestants, Catholics, and Jews having a strong preference for children who identify with their own religious beliefs and making costly decisions to influence their children's religious beliefs. Our estimates imply dynamics of the shares of religious traits in the population that are in sharp contrast with the predictions obtained by linear extrapolations from current intermarriage rates.