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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2014
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352345
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Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules
Cigno, Alessandro; Gioffré, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2019
preference evolution? We show that it is in a couple's common interest to obey a rule requiring them to give specified amounts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059103
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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262480
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Hedonic capital
Graham, Liam; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2006
This paper proposes a new way to think about happiness. It distinguishes between stocks and flows. Central to the analysis is a concept we call 'hedonic capital'. The paper sets out a model of the dynamics of wellbeing in which bad life-shocks are smoothed by the drawing down of hedonic capital....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267560
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Social Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271935
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Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658200
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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398260
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409383
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
and the evolution of societies from an epoch of stagnation to sustained economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409391
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How Darwinian Should an Economy Be?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014
This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by which more successful firms are replicated at a higher rate. The structure of the model allows to characterize analytically the aggregate dynamics, and to compute the effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468181