Does Mother Nature Punish Rotten Kids?

Ted Bergstrom () and Carl Bergstrom ()

Game Theory and Information from EconWPA

Abstract: This paper studies the evolutionary game theory of parent-offspring conflict. It revisits a question posed by Gary Becker in economics and Richard Alexander in biology, namely "when do children act in accord with the reproductive interests of their parents?"

Keywords: biology; evolutionary; game; theory; parent-offspring; conflict; family; economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C7 D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gth
Date: 2001-06-22
Note: Type of Document - TeX document in pdf; prepared on linux; to print on HP ; pages: 25; figures: included .
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://129.3.20.41/eps/game/papers/0106/0106004.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Does Mother Nature Punish Rotten Kids? (2000)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wpa:wuwpga:0106004

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Game Theory and Information from EconWPA
Series data maintained by EconWPA ().