Human motivation: evolutionary foundations and their implications for economics

Project Information

EvolvingEconomics

Grant agreement ID: 789111

DOI

10.3030/789111

Project closed

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

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

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

Evolution of Semi-Kantian Preferences in Two-Player Assortative Interactions with Complete and Incomplete Information and Plasticity

Author(s): Ingela Alger, Laurent Lehmann
Published in: Dynamic Games and Applications, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 1288-1319, ISSN 2153-0785
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
DOI: 10.1007/s13235-023-00521-y

Proximate and ultimate drivers of norms and norm change

Author(s): Ingela Alger, Sergey Gavrilets, Patrick Durkee
Published in: Current Opinion in Psychology, Issue 60, 2024, Page(s) 101916, ISSN 2352-250X
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101916

Moral preferences in bargaining

Author(s): Pau Juan-Bartroli, Emin Karagözoğlu
Published in: Economic Theory, 2024, ISSN 0938-2259
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-023-01544-7

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

Optimism leads to optimality: Ambiguity in network formation

Author(s): Péter Bayer, Ani Guerdjikova
Published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Issue 168, 2024, Page(s) 104944, ISSN 0165-1889
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2024.104944

Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic Interactions

Author(s): Boris van Leeuwen, Ingela Alger
Published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 665-706, ISSN 2832-9368
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/732125

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

Best-response dynamics in directed network games

Author(s): Péter Bayer, György Kozics, Nóra Gabriella Szőke
Published in: Journal of Economic Theory, Issue 213, 2024, Page(s) 105720, ISSN 0022-0531
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2023.105720

A Markovian decision model of adaptive cancer treatment and quality of life

Author(s): Péter Bayer, Joel S. Brown, Johan Dubbeldam, Mark Broom
Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology, Issue 551-552, 2024, Page(s) 111237, ISSN 0022-5193
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111237

Games and the Treatment Convexity of Cancer

Author(s): Péter Bayer, Jeffrey West
Published in: Dynamic Games and Applications, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 1088-1105, ISSN 2153-0785
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
DOI: 10.1007/s13235-023-00520-z

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 (11)

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

A Foundation for Universalisation in Games

Author(s): Enrico Mattia Salonia
Published in: Toulouse School of Economics Working Paper series, Issue 24-1586, 2024
Publisher: Toulouse School of Economics

Norms and norm change - driven by social preferences and Kantian morality

Author(s): Ingela Alger Peter Bayer
Published in: Toulouse School of Economics Working Papers series, Issue 24-1605, 2024
Publisher: Toulouse School of Economics

Does universalization ethics justify participation in large elections?

Author(s): Dierks, Konrad; Alger, Ingela; Laslier, Jean-François
Published in: Toulouse School of Economics Working Paper series, Issue 21-1193b, 2024
Publisher: Toulouse School of Economics

Evolutionarily stable networks

Author(s): Bayer, Peter
Published in: Toulouse School of Economics Working Paper series, Issue 23-1487, 2023
Publisher: Toulouse School of Economics

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

Taxing moral agents

Author(s): Esteban Munoz Sobrado
Published in: CESifo Working Paper, Issue 9867, 2022
Publisher: CESifo Network

On Injunctive Norms: Theory and Experiment

Author(s): Juan-Bartroli, Pau
Published in: Toulouse School of Economics Working Paper series, Issue 24-1515, 2024
Publisher: Toulouse School of Economics Working Paper series

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