Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP5613
Authors: Gilles Saint-Paul
Abstract: This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.
Keywords: comparative advantage; gene-culture coevolution; genotypes; trade
JEL Codes: J1; J22
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| trading (F19) | survival of fitness-reducing alleles (I14) |
| number of loci affecting fitness (C46) | conditions for survival of fitness-reducing alleles (I12) |