Ejaculate economics: an experimental test in a moth

Ejaculate economics: an experimental test in a moth.

Increasing evidence shows that spermatogenesis is costly. As a consequence, males should optimize the use of their sperm to maximize their reproductive outputs in their lifetime. However, experimental evidence on this prediction is largely lacking. Here, we examine how a male moth Ephestia kuehniella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) responds to the presence of rivals or additional mates and how ...

Will Economics Become an Experimental Science?

Experimental Methods in Economics *

Essays in Experimental Economics

This paper tests whether people can exercise self-control in limiting consumption of unwanted food and whether they can pre-empt their future lack of self-control by restricting the availability of food. An experiment was conducted with Stanford University undergraduates over a period of 7 weeks in which some participants were given a fixed number of candies by the experimenter and other partic...

Toward a cognitive experimental economics

For the last few years, economic literature has shown a new stream of analysis, at the crossroads of the heterodox tradition and cognitive sciences. A new approach is born, called Cognitive Economics, since attention is focused on the study of individual and organizational learning, seen as a key factor in shaping social phenomena (Rizzello, 2000). This new stream of analysis aims at refounding...