%0 Report
        %A Algan, Yann
%A Malgouyres, Clément
%A Mayer, Thierry
%A Thoenig, Mathias
        %T The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns across France
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14476
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14476
        %X This paper studies how economic incentives influence cultural transmission, using a crucial expression of cultural identity: Child naming decisions. Our focus is on Arabic versus Non-Arabic names given in France over the 2003-2007 period. Our model of cultural transmission features three determinants: (i) vertical (parental) cultural transmission culture; (ii) horizontal (neighborhood) influence; (iii) information on the economic penalty associated with Arabic names. We find that economic incentives largely influence naming choices: Would the parental expectation on the economic penalty be zero, the annual number of babies born with an Arabic name would be more than 50 percent larger.
        %K first names
%K cultural transmission
%K cultural economics
%K social interactions