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Disagreement in a naïve model of attitude formation: Comparative statics results

Revista de Economia del Rosario, ISSN: 2145-454X, Vol: 23, Issue: 2, Page: 1-24
2020
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Disagreement in a Naive Model of Attitude Formation: Comparative Statics Results/El desacuerdo en modelos de formacion de opiniones: resultados de estatica comparativa/O desacordo em modelos de formacao de opinioes: resultados de estatica comparativa.

Introduction Melguizo (2019) proposes a model of attitude formation where individuals update their attitudes by averaging those of their friends. This model captures the persistence

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This paper further studies the persistence of disagreement in a model similar to Melguizo (2019), by relaxing two essential assumptions. First, attitudes are random variables, and second, individuals may be homophilous at different extents. Regarding the first exten-sion, the finding is that disagreement persists with the highest probability across the attribute that exhibits the highest mean of the distribution of initial differences in average attitudes. Regarding the second one, the finding is that the magnitude of disagreement and the speed of convergence to it, increase with respect to the case in which individuals are homophilous to the same extent.

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