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The preferences of Homo Moralis are unstable under evolving assortativity

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Differing degrees of assortativity in matching can be expected to have both genetic and cultural determinants. When assortativity is subject to evolution, the main result of of Alger and Weibull (2013) on the evolution of stable other regarding preferences does not hold. Instead, both non-Nash and Pareto inefficient behavior are evolutionarily unstable.

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  • Newton, Jonathan, 2014. "The preferences of Homo Moralis are unstable under evolving assortativity," Working Papers 2014-14, University of Sydney, School of Economics.
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    evolution; moral values; assortative matching;
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    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games

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