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Choy, James (2018) Social division with endogenous hierarchy. The Economic Journal, 128 (615). pp. 2711-2742. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12508 ISSN 0013-0133.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12508
Abstract
Many societies are divided into multiple smaller groups. Certain kinds of interaction are more likely to take place within a group than across groups. I model a reputation effect that enforces these divisions. People who are observed to interact with members of different groups are believed to be less trustworthy by members of their own group. A hierarchical relationship between groups appears endogenously in equilibrium. The information requirements for my equilibrium to exist are much less demanding than the information requirements in related models. These different information requirements correspond to concrete differences between the institutions of different Indian castes.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social stratification, Social groups, Reliability -- Mathematical models | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Economic Journal | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0013-0133 | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 128 | ||||||||
Number: | 615 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 2711-2742 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12508 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 January 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 November 2018 | ||||||||
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