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Our understanding of risk preferences can be sharpened by considering their evolutionary basis. The existing literature … has focused on two sources of risk: idiosyncratic risk and aggregate risk. We introduce a new source of risk, heritable … risk, in which there is a positive correlation between the fitness of a newborn agent and the fitness of her parent …
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We construct an overlapping generations model in which parents vote on the tax rate that determines publicly provided education and offspring choose their effort in learning activities. The technology governing the accumulation of human capital allows these decisions to be strategic complements....
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