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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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Social Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005823004
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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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Hedonic Capital
Graham, Liam; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566636
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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005761761
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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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Left-Handedness and Economic Development
Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - 2021
This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which economic development influences the prevalence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597383
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468181