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Selected Works of Ted C Bergstrom
Unpublished Paper
Storage for Good Times and Bad: Of Rats and Men
Department of Economics, UCSB (1997)
  • Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Abstract

How do rats and squirrels decide how much to hoard for the winter when they do not know how long the winter will be? This paper argues that natural selection is likely to result in random differences in the attitudes toward systemic risk by genetically identical individuals.

Keywords
  • evolution of preferences,
  • attitudes toward risk,
  • food-hoarding,
  • genetics,
  • random phenotype
Disciplines
Publication Date
December 1, 1997
Citation Information
Ted Bergstrom. "Storage for Good Times and Bad: Of Rats and Men" Department of Economics, UCSB (1997)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ted_bergstrom/76/