Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle

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This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family per-spective. In models where every new person is 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 traits making their appearance occurs in models where the trait characterizing any given member of any given generation is a combination of traits drawn at random from those represented in the previous generation. Preferences may be altruistic or non-altruistic, but individuals may behave as if they were altruistic even if they are not, because a rule or norm may make it in their interest to do so. Evolutionary stability and renegotiation proofness play analogous roles, the former by selecting altruistic preferences, and the latter by selecting cooperation-inducing rules.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9226

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General ; Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory ; Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles ; Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
• Thema: evolution ; preferences ; family rules ; social norms ; socialization ; matching ; hold-up problem

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Cigno, Alessandro
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/245407
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ