Does Mother Nature Punish Rotten Kids?

Ted Bergstrom () and Carl Bergstrom ()

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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)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2001-06-22
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