A model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps

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Roland G. Fryer
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"This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main results. First, some individuals expected to make group specific capital investments are worse off because their observed decision is used as a litmus test of group loyalty creating a tradeoff between human capital and cooperation among the group. Second, there exist equilibria which exhibit bipolar human capital investment behavior by individuals of similar ability. Third, as social mobility increases this bipolarization increases. The models predictions are consistent with the bifurcation of distinctively black names in the mid 1960s, the erosion of black neighborhoods in the 1970s, accusations of acting white, and the efficacy of certain programs designed to encourage human capital acquisition" National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

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A model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps
2006, National Bureau of Economic Research
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A model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps
2006, National Bureau of Economic Research
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NBER working paper series -- working paper 12364, Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12364.

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