Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Cowan, Robin
Author-Name: Jonard, Nicolas
Author-workplace-name: MERIT
Title: Social Sorting
Abstract: This paper is about the behaviour of a society in which learning individuals play a Prisoner’s Dilemma that guides social promotion and demotion. The direct effect of the payoff-based socialization that is implemented here is segregation. However, segregation permits the survival of cooperation as it (unintendedly) preserves cooperators from detrimental interactions with defectors. Very large amounts of cooperation can be observed in the long run.
Keywords: microeconomics ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2003
Number: 035
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/rmpdf/removed.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 257860
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:2003035