Parents, Television and Cultural Change
构建了一个文化传播模型，研究利润最大化的电视行业如何影响不同文化特质的覆盖，并分析由此产生的文化动态，发现文化灭绝仅在极特殊情况下发生。
We develop a model of cultural transmission where television plays a role in socialisation. We study the coverage of different cultural traits by a profit-maximising TV industry and the resulting cultural dynamics. A monopolist covers both traits, but grants more coverage to the most profitable group. In a competitive TV industry each channel specialises on one trait. This might lead to cultural extinction, but only for sufficiently large majorities. Cultural extinction is more likely in a competitive than in a monopolistic TV industry. Overall our model predicts that cultural extinction can only occur under very special circumstances. © 2013 Royal Economic Society.