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 | McElreath, Richard | New methods in quantitative ethnography: economic experiments and variation in the price of equality | A new method for quantitatively documenting concerns for economic fairness has the potential for identifying variation in prosociality within and across societies. Multiple dictator games conducted in two small-scale societies presented decision makers with a choice between an equitable and an ine... | Inequality; Payoffs; Prosociality | 2007-12 |
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 | McElreath, Richard | Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers | Unlike other primates, human populations are often divided into ethnic groups that have self-ascribed membership and are marked by seemingly arbitrary traits such as distinctive styles of dress or speech (Barth 1969, 1981). The modern understanding that ethnic identities are flexible and ethnic bou... | Ethnic groups; Ethnic identity; Migration; Markers | 2003-02 |
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 | Wiessner, Pauline W. | Wealth transmission and inequality among hunter-gatherers | We report quantitative estimates of intergenerational transmission and population-wide inequality for wealth measures in a set of hunter-gatherer populations. Wealth is defined broadly as factors that contribute to individual or household well-being, ranging from embodied forms, such as weight and h... | 2010-02 |
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