Gambling on Genes: Ambiguity Aversion Explains Investment in Sisters' Children
Many men invest in their sisters’ children instead of their wives’. Existing theories addressing such behavior depend on the level of paternity probability in such men’s societies being implausibly low. I link this anthropologically observed investment behavior with the experimentally observed pheno...
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Main Author: | GUHA, Brishti |
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Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1406 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2405/viewcontent/33_2012_GamblingonGenes.pdf |
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