On the cultural transmission of preferences for social status
研究社会地位偏好如何通过代际文化传递形成，发现纯地位或纯非地位偏好的人口分布不稳定，而两者共存的状态在特定条件下稳定，并受制度、技术和政策影响。
We study the formation of preferences for `social status' as the result of intergenerational transmission of cultural traits. We characterize the behavior of parents with preferences for status in terms of socialization of their children to this particular cultural trait. We show that degenerate distributions of the population (whereby agents have either all status preferences or all non-status preferences) are dynamically unstable. Moreover, under some conditions, there exists a unique stationary distribution which is non-degenerate (in which both status and non-status preferences co-exist in the population), and this distribution is locally stable. Finally, we study the dependence of the stable stationary distribution of status preferences on institutional, technological and policy parameters which affect agents' economic conditions.