Human motivation: evolutionary foundations and their implications for economics

Project Information

EvolvingEconomics

Grant agreement ID: 789111

DOI 10.3030/789111

EC signature date 4 December 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 December 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 550 891,25

EU contribution € 1 550 891,25

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Evolutionarily stable preferences

Author(s): Ingela Alger
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0505

On the evolution of male competitiveness

Author(s): Ingela Alger
Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Issue 190, 2021, Page(s) 228-254, ISSN 0167-2681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.07.027

Evolution and Kantian morality: A correction and addendum

Author(s): Ingela ALGER; Jörgen WEIBULL
Published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, ISSN 0899-8256
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2023.04.002

Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: coordination and information aggregation

Author(s): Ingela ALGER; Jean-François LASLIER
Published in: Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2022, ISSN 0951-6298
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09516298221081811

Evolution of preferences in structured populations: Genes, guns, and culture

Author(s): Ingela Alger, Jörgen W. Weibull, Laurent Lehmann
Published in: Journal of Economic Theory, Issue 185, 2020, Page(s) 104951, ISSN 0022-0531
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2019.104951

Paternal provisioning results from ecological change

Author(s): Ingela Alger, Paul L. Hooper, Donald Cox, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard S. Kaplan
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 117/20, 2020, Page(s) 10746-10754, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917166117

The evolution of early hominin food production and sharing

Author(s): Ingela ALGER; Slimane DRIDI; Jonathan STIEGLITZ; Michael L. WILSON
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2218096120

Other (5)

Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic Interactions

Author(s): Alger, Ingela; Van Leeuwen, Boris
Published in: TSE Working Paper 19-1056, Issue 2, 2021
Publisher: TSE Working Paper 19-1056

Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: a new theory of voter turnout

Author(s): Alger, Ingela; Laslier, Jean-François
Published in: TSE Working Paper 21-1193, Issue 5, 2021
Publisher: TSE Working Paper 21-1193

Supplementary material for 'Evolutionarily stable preferences'

Author(s): Alger, Ingela
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22098997

Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: coordination and information aggregation

Author(s): Ingela Alger, Jean Francois Laslier
Published in: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: TSE Working Paper 20-1168
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3756263

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance

Author(s): Ingela Alger Donald Cox
Published in: Title of the article: Evolution of the Family: Theory and Implications for Economics, 2019, ISBN 9780190625979
Publisher: Oxford Research Encyclopedias
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.439