Social Sorting

This paper is about the behaviour of a society in which learning individuals play a Prisoner’s Dilemma that guides social promotion and demotion. The direct effect of the payoff-based socialization that is implemented here is segregation. However, segregation permits the survival of cooperation as it (unintendedly) preserves cooperators from detrimental interactions with defectors. Very large amounts of cooperation can be observed in the long run.

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Cowan, Robin ; Jonard, Nicolas
Institutions:	Maastricht : MERIT, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
Subject:	microeconomics

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Research Memoranda.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	The text is part of a series Research Memoranda Number 035
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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