- Series
- Dynamical Systems Working Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Tongzhou Chen – GT Math
- Organizer
- Jiaqi Yang
We model and analyze the dynamics of religious group membership
and size. A groups is distinguished by its strictness, which determines
how much time group members are expected to spend contributing to the
group. Individuals differ in their rate of return for time spent outside
of their religious group. We construct a utility function that individ-
uals attempt to maximize, then find a Nash Equilibrium for religious
group participation with a heterogeneous population. We then model
dynamics of group size by including birth, death, and switching of
individuals between groups. Group switching depends on the strictness
preferences of individuals and their probability of encountering members
of other groups.