Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bertrand, Marianne; Kamenica, Emir
• 署名单位: University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20210663
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 100-141
• 关键词: gender-gap; polarization; TRENDS; names; allocation; women

摘要

We analyze trends in cultural distances between groups in the United States defined by income, education, gender, race, and political ide-ology. We measure cultural distance as the ability to infer an indi-vidual's group based on media diet, consumer behavior, time use, social attitudes, or newborn's name. Gender difference in time-use decreased between 1965 and 1995 and has remained constant since. Differences in social attitudes by political ideology, and somewhat by income, have increased over the last four decades. Whites and non-Whites have diverged in consumer behavior. For all other demo-graphic divisions and cultural dimensions, cultural distance has been broadly constant over time.