Article

Alger, Ingela, Gavrilets, Sergey and Durkee, Patrick (2024) Proximate and ultimate drivers of norms and norm change. Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 60.

Van Leeuwen, Boris and Alger, Ingela (2024) Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Startegic Interactions. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, vol. 2 (n° 4). pp. 665-706.

Alger, Ingela and Lehmann, Laurent (2023) Evolution of semi-kantian preferences in two-player assortative interactions with complete and incomplete information and plasticity. Dynamic Games and Applications, vol. 13. pp. 1288-1319.

Alger, Ingela, Dridi, Slimane, Stieglitz, Jonathan and Wilson, Michael (2023) The evolution of early hominin food production and sharing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120 (n° 25).

Alger, Ingela, Juarez, Laura, Juarez-Torres, Miriam and Miquel-Florensa, Josepa (2023) Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good ? World Bank Economic Review, vol. 37 (n° 2). 205–220-205–220.

Alger, Ingela (2023) Evolutionarily stable preferences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences., vol. 378 (n° 1876).

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2023) Evolution and Kantian morality : a correction and addendum. Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 140. pp. 585-587.

Alger, Ingela and Laslier, Jean-François (2022) Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: coordination and information aggregation. Journal of Theoretical Politics, vol. 34 (n° 2). pp. 280-312.

Alger, Ingela (2021) On the evolution of male competitiveness. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol.190. pp. 228-254.

Alger, Ingela, Juarez, Laura, Juarez-Torres, Miriam and Miquel-Florensa, Josepa (2020) Do informal transfers induce lower efforts? Evidence from lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Mexico. Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 69 (n° 1). pp. 107-171.

Alger, Ingela, Hooper, Paul L., Cox, Donald, Stieglitz, Jonathan and Kaplan, Hillard (2020) Paternal provisioning results from ecological change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 117 (20). pp. 10746-10754.

Alger, Ingela, Weibull, Jörgen W. and Lehmann, Laurent (2020) Evolution of preferences in structured populations: Genes, guns, and culture. Journal of Economic Theory, 185 (104951).

Alger, Ingela and Cox, Donald (2019) Evolution of the Family: Theory and Implications for Economics. Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Economics and Finance.

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2019) Evolutionary Models of Preference Formation. Annual Review of Economics, vol.11. pp. 329-354.

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2017) Strategic Behavior of Moralists and Altruists. Games, 8 (3).

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2016) Evolution and Kantian morality. Games and Economic Behavior, n°98. pp. 56-67.

Alger, Ingela, Lehmann, Laurent and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2015) Does evolution lead to maximizing behavior? Evolution, 69 (7). pp. 1858-1873.

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2013) Homo moralis - Preference evolution under incomplete information and assortative matching. Econometrica, vol. 81 (n° 6). pp. 2269-2302.

Alger, Ingela and Cox, Donald (2013) The evolution of altruistic preferences: mothers versus fathers. Review of Economics of the Household, vol. 11. pp. 421-446.

Alger, Ingela, Ching-to-Albert, Ma and Renault, Régis (2012) Experience benefits and firm organization. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Advances), vol. 12 (n° 1).

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2012) A generalization of Hamilton’s rules – Love others how much? Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 299. pp. 42-54.

Alger, Ingela (2010) Corrigendum: public goods games, altruism, and evolution. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 12 (6).

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2010) Kinship, Incentives, and Evolution. American Economic Review, 100 (4). pp. 1725-1758.

Alger, Ingela (2010) Public goods games, altruism, and evolution. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 12 (4). pp. 789-813.

Alger, Ingela and Renault, Régis (2007) Screening ethics when honest agents keep their word. Economic Theory, 30. pp. 291-311.

Alger, Ingela and Renault, Régis (2006) Screening ethics when honest agents care about fairness. International Economic Review, 47 (1). pp. 59-85.

Alger, Ingela and Salanié, François (2006) A theory of fraud and overtreatment in experts markets. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 15 (4). pp. 853-881.

Alger, Ingela and Ching-to-Albert, Ma (2003) Moral hazard, insurance, and some collusion. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 50 (2). pp. 225-247.

Alger, Ingela (1999) Consumer strategies limiting the monopolist's power: mulitple and joint purchases. RAND Journal of Economics, 30 (4). pp. 736-757.

Book Section

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2020) Morality: evolutionary foundations and economic implications. In: The state of economics, the state of the world. Basu, Kaushik, Rosenblatt, David and Sepulveda, Claudia Paz (eds.) MIT Press. ISBN 9780262039994

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2008) Family ties, incentives and development: a model of coerced altruism. In: Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume II: Society, Institutions and Development Oxford University Press. Chapter 10. ISBN 9780199239979

Monograph

Alger, Ingela (2025) Norms and norm change - driven by social-Kantian preferences. TSE Working Paper, n. 24-1605, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela and Rivero-Wildemauwe, José Ignacio (2024) Doing the right thing (or not) in a lemons-like situation: on the role of social preferences and Kantian moral concerns. TSE Working Paper, n. 24-1531, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2023) Evolution and Kantian morality: a correction and addendum. TSE Working Paper, n. 23-1406, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela and Lehmann, Laurent (2023) Evolution of semi-Kantian preferences in two-player assortative interactions with complete and incomplete information and plasticity. TSE Working Paper, n. 23-1405, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela (2022) Evolutionarily stable preferences. TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1355, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela, Dridi, Slimane, Stieglitz, Jonathan and Wilson, Michael (2022) The evolution of early hominin food production and sharing. TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1337

Dierks, Konrad, Alger, Ingela and Laslier, Jean-François (2021) Does universalization ethics justify participation in large elections? TSE Working Paper, n. 21-1193, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela and Laslier, Jean-François (2020) Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: coordination and information aggregation. TSE Working Paper, n. 20-1168, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela and Cox, Donald (2020) Evolution of the Family: Theory and Implications for Economics. TSE Working Paper, n. 20-1139, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela (2020) On the evolution of male competitiveness. IAST Working Paper, n. 20-105, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela, Juarez, Laura, Juarez-Torres, Miriam and Miquel-Florensa, Josepa (2020) Do women contribute more effort than men to a real public good? TSE Working Paper, n. 20-1071, Toulouse

Van Leeuwen, Boris and Alger, Ingela (2019) Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic Interactions. IAST Working Paper, n. 19-100, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2018) Evolutionary Models of Preference Formation. IAST Working Paper, n. 18-82, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2017) Strategic Behavior of Moralists and Altruists. IAST Working Paper, n. 17-69, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2016) Morality: evolutionary foundations and policy implications. IAST Working Paper, n. 16-48

Alger, Ingela, Juarez, Laura, Juarez-Torres, Miriam and Miquel-Florensa, Josepa (2016) Do informal transfers induce lower efforts? Evidence from lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Mexico. IAST Working Paper, n. 16-34, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela (2015) How many wives do men want? On the evolution of preferences over polygyny rates. TSE Working Paper, n. 15-586

Alger, Ingela, Lehmann, Laurent and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2015) Does evolution lead to maximizing behavior? TSE Working Paper, n. 15-561, Toulouse

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2014) Evolutionarily stable strategies, preferences and moral values, in n-player Interactions. LERNA Working Paper, n. 14-07-408

Alger, Ingela and Cox, Donald (2012) The Evolution of Altruistic Preferences: Mothers versus Fathers. LERNA Working Paper, n. 12.30.387

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2012) Homo Moralis-Preference evolution under incomplete information and assortative matching. LERNA Working Paper, n. 12.17.374

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jörgen W. (2012) Homo Moralis-Preference evolution under incomplete information and assortative matching. LERNA Working Paper, n. 12.03.360

Book

Alger, Ingela, Frank, Robert H. and Parker, Ian C. (2013) Microeconomics & Behaviour. Mc Graw Hill International