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Altruism and fairness in Schelling’s segregation model

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  • Flaig, Julien
  • Houy, Nicolas

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In Schelling’s segregation model (Schelling, 1971), the successive moves of agents optimizing their own locations lead to a suboptimal segregated distribution of the population, even though all agents have the same preference for mixed neighborhoods. The reason is that when moving, individuals have an impact on others that they do not internalize in their optimization problems. Jensen et al. (2018) showed that even a very small fraction of altruistic individuals internalizing the common objective of reaching a mixed distribution of the population is enough to solve inefficiencies.

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  • Flaig, Julien & Houy, Nicolas, 2019. "Altruism and fairness in Schelling’s segregation model," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 527(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:527:y:2019:i:c:s0378437119307563
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.121298
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    1. Akihisa Okada & Daisuke Inoue & Shihori Koyama & Tadayoshi Matsumori & Hiroaki Yoshida, 2022. "Dynamical cooperation model for mitigating the segregation phase in Schelling’s model," The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Springer;EDP Sciences, vol. 95(10), pages 1-10, October.
    2. Ortega, Diego & Rodríguez-Laguna, Javier & Korutcheva, Elka, 2022. "Segregation in spatially structured cities," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 608(P1).

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