In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution … understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …

This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …

preference evolution? We show that it is in a couple's common interest to obey a rule requiring them to give specified amounts of …

This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by …

and the evolution of societies from an epoch of stagnation to sustained economic growth. …

return to agricultural investment, triggered selection and learning processes that had a persistent positive effect on the …

a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …

This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …