@techreport{Brueckner2004Workings,
abstract = {This paper links the two nascent economic literatures on social networks and cultural
assimilation by investigating the evolution of population attributes in a simple model where
agents are influenced by their acquaintances. The main conclusion of the analysis is that
attributes converge to a melting-pot equilibrium, where everyone is identical, provided the
social network exhibits a sufficient degree of interconnectedness. When the model is extended
to allow an expanding acquaintance set, convergence is guaranteed provided a weaker
interconnectedness condition is satisfied, and convergence is rapid. If the intensity of
interactions with acquaintances becomes endogenous, convergence (when it occurs) is slowed
when agents prefer to interact with people like themselves and hastened when interaction with
dissimilar agents is preferred.},
author = {Jan Keith Brueckner and Oleg Smirnov},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J10; J00; 330; Soziale Integration; Soziales Netzwerk; Theorie},
language = {eng},
number = {1320},
title = {Workings of the melting pot : social networks and the evolution of population attributes},
type = {CESifo working papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18685},
year = {2004}
}
