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This paper is not yet published. I plan to do some more work on it.

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ABSTRACT:
How do rats and squirrels decide how much to hoard for the winter when they do not know how long the winter will be? This paper argues that natural selection is likely to result in random differences in the attitudes toward systemic risk by genetically identical individuals.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Ted Bergstrom, "Storage for Good Times and Bad: Of Rats and Men" (December 1, 1997). Department of Economics, UCSB. Ted Bergstrom. Paper 1997A.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/bergstrom/1997A