• Title of article

    Sexual reproduction and time-inconsistent preferences

  • Author/Authors

    Karl W?rneryd، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    3
  • From page
    14
  • To page
    16
  • Abstract
    Because humans used to live in small groups, the probability that the offspring of a geneʹs carrier would itself have the gene may have been greater than one-half, suggesting that fitness-maximizing time preference would have been biased toward the present.
  • Keywords
    Time Preference , Evolution , Time inconsistency
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    436182