Evolutionarily stable preferences

I Alger - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The 50-year old concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy provided a key tool for theorists
to model ultimate drivers of behaviour in social interactions. For decades, economists …

Proximate and ultimate drivers of norms and norm change

I Alger, S Gavrilets, P Durkee - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
We describe a formal model of norm psychology that can be applied to better understand
norm change. The model integrates several proximate drivers of normative behavior: beliefs …

Ends versus means: Kantians, utilitarians, and moral decisions

R Bénabou, A Falk, L Henkel - 2024 - nber.org
Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the
decision–the Consequentialist view–or on the conformity of the means involved with some …

Cognitive Noise and Altruistic Preferences

NM Witzig - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07647, 2024 - arxiv.org
I study altruistic choices through the lens of a cognitively noisy decision-maker. I introduce a
theoretical framework that demonstrates how increased cognitive noise can directionally …

Evolution of semi-Kantian preferences in two-player assortative interactions with complete and incomplete information and plasticity

I Alger, L Lehmann - Dynamic Games and Applications, 2023 - Springer
We model the evolution of preferences guiding behavior in pairwise interactions in group-
structured populations. The model uses long-term evolution theory to examine different …

Kantians defy the economists' mantra of uniform Pigovian emissions taxes

T Eichner, R Pethig - Ecological Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the efficiency-restoring (= Pigovian) taxation of emissions in
economies with pollution damage and consumers who are morally motivated to reduce their …

[PDF][PDF] Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: a new theory of voter turnout

I Alger, JF Laslier - 2021 - shs.hal.science
Does universalization ethics justify participation in large elections? Page 1 HAL Id: halshs-03152172
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03152172v2 Preprint submitted on 3 Jun 2024 HAL is a multi-disciplinary …

Climate policy and moral consumers

T Eichner, R Pethig - The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyzes climate policy (in the form of emissions caps) in a multi‐country game
when consumers have preferences with different degrees of morality. In the absence of …

Measuring socially appropriate social preferences

J Carpenter, A Robbett - Games and Economic Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper extends the literature on structural estimation of social preferences to account for
the desire to adhere to social norms and hide one's true intentions via moral wiggle room …

Doing the right thing (or not) in a lemons-like situation: on the role of social preferences and Kantian moral concerns

I Alger, JI Rivero-Wildemauwe - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.13186, 2024 - arxiv.org
We conduct a laboratory experiment using framing to assess the willingness to``sell a
lemon'', ie, to undertake an action that benefits self but hurts the other (the``buyer''). We seek …