Below you may find selected publications from the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University.

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Submissions from 2014

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Accounting Standards and Financial Market Stability: An Experimental Examination, Shengle Lin, Glenn Pfeiffer, and David Porter

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Ageism, Honesty, and Trust, Eric Schniter and Timothy W. Shields

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A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments, Emmanuel Dechenaux, Dan Kovenock, and Roman M. Sheremeta

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Atherosclerosis: A Longue Durée Approach, L. Samuel Wann, Randall C. Thompson, Adel H. Allam, Caleb E. Finch, Albert Zink, Hillard Kaplan, Bruno Frohlich, Guido P. Lombardi, M. Linda Sutherland, James D. Sutherland, Lucia Watson, Samantha L. Cox, Michael I. Miyamoto, Alexandre F. R. Stewart, Jagat Narula, and Gregory S. Thomas

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A Tractable Analysis of Contagious Equilibria, Gabriele Camera and Alessandro Gioffré

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Centralized Institutions and Cascades, Jared Rubin

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Consistency Of Higher Order Risk Preferences, Cary Deck and Harris Schlesinger

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Consumption And Investment Booms In The Twenties And Their Collapse In 1930, Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith

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Decision Making In A Sequential Game: The Case Of Pitting In Nascar, Alan Deck, Cary Deck, and Zhen Zhu

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Divided Loyalists Or Conditional Cooperators? Creating Consensus About Cooperation In Multiple Simultaneous Social Dilemmas, Matthew W. McCarter, Anya Samek, and Roman M. Sheremeta

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Don’T Ask Me If You Will Not Listen: The Dilemma Of Participative Decision Making, Brice Corgnet and Roberto Hernán González

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Double Bubbles In Assets Markets With Multiple Generations, Cary Deck, David Porter, and Vernon L. Smith

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Effort and Performance: What Distinguishes Interacting and Noninteracting Groups from Individuals?, Tibor Besedeš, Cary Deck, Sarah Quintanar, and Sudipta Sarangi

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Experimenting With Purchase History Based Price Discrimination, Zuzana Brokesova, Cary Deck, and Jana Peliova

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Extremism Drives Out Moderation, Bettina Klose and Dan Kovenock

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Fair and Impartial Spectators in Experimental Economic Behavior, Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson

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Functional Disability and Social Conflict Increase Risk of Depression in Older Adulthood Among Bolivian Forager-Farmers, John Stieglitz, Eric Schniter, Christopher von Rueden, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Funerary Artifacts, Social Status, and Atherosclerosis in Ancient Peruvian Mummy Bundles, M. Linda Sutherland, Samantha L. Cox, Guido P. Lombardi, Lucia Watson, Clide M. Valladolid, Caleb E. Finch, Albert Zink, Bruno Frohlich, Hillard Kaplan, David E. Michalik, Michael I. Miyamoto, Adel H. Allam, Randall C. Thompson, L. Samuel Wann, Jagat Narula, Gregory S. Thomas, and James D. Sutherland

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Game-Theoretic Foundations of Monetary Equilibrium, Gabriele Camera and Alessandro Gioffré

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Genomic Correlates of Atherosclerosis in Ancient Humans, Albert Zink, L. Samuel Wann, Randall C. Thompson, Andreas Keller, Frank Maixner, Adel H. Allam, Caleb E. Finch, Bruno Frohlich, Hillard Kaplan, Guido P. Lombardi, M. Linda Sutherland, James D. Sutherland, Lucia Watson, Samantha L. Cox, Michael I. Miyamoto, Jagat Narula, Alexandre F. R. Stewart, Gregory S. Thomas, and Johannes Krause

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Investing Versus Gambling: Experimental Evidence Of Multi-Domain Risk Attitudes, Cary Deck, Jungmin Lee, and Javier Reyes

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Leadership in an Egalitarian Society, Christopher von Rueden, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Jonathan Stieglitz

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Low Mineral Density of a Weight-Bearing Bone Among Adult Women in a High Fertility Population, Jonathan Stieglitz, Bret Beheim, Benjamin C. Trumble, Felicia C. Madimenos, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Older Adults’ Contributions to the Tsimane Forager-Farmer Economy, Eric Schniter

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Parity Promotes Peace: Resolving Conflicts Through A Random Device, Erik O. Kimbrough, Roman M. Sheremeta, and Timothy W. Shields

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Paying For Express Checkout: Competition And Price Discrimination In Multi-Server Queuing Systems, Cary Deck, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Steeve Mongrain

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Political Influence Associates With Cortisol and Health Among Egalitarian Forager-Farmers, Christopher von Rueden, Benjamin C. Trumble, Melissa Emery Thompson, Jonathan Stieglitz, Paul L. Hooper, Aaron D. Blackwell, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Predictable and Predictive Emotions: Explaining Cheap Signals and Trust Re-extension, Eric Schniter and Roman M. Sheremeta

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Printing and Protestants: An Empirical Test Of the Role Of Printing In the Reformation, Jared Rubin

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Public Goods With High-Powered Punishment: High Cooperation And Low Efficiency, Terence C. Burnham

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Regulatory Adaptations for Delivering Information: The Case of Confession, Daniel Sznycer, Eric Schniter, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides

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Rethinking Housing Bubbles: The Role Of Household And Bank Balance Sheets In Modeling Economic Cycles, Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith

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Sex Difference in Travel is Concentrated in Adolescence and Tracks Reproductive Interests, Emily J. Miner, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Steven J. C. Gaulin

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Successful Hunting Increases Testosterone and Cortisol in a Subsistence Population, Benjamin C. Trumble, Eric A. Smith, Kathleen A. O'Connor, Hillard S. Kaplan, and Michael D. Gurven

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Surf's Up: Reducing Internet Abuse Without Demotivating Employees, Brian C. Gunia, Brice Corgnet, and Roberto Hernán González

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The All-Pay Auction with Complete Information and Identity-Dependent Externalities, Bettina Klose and Dan Kovenock

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The Coordination Value of Monetary Exchange: Experimental Evidence, Gabriele Camera and Marco Casari

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The Evolutionary Fitness of Personality Traits in a Small-Scale Subsistence Society, Michael Gurven, Christopher von Rueden, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, and Daniel Eid Rodriguez

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The Nonlinear Price Fynamics of US Equity ETFs, Gunduz Caginalp, Mark DeSantis, and Akin Sayrak

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Understanding the Distributional Impact of Long-Run Inflation, Gabriele Camera and YiLi Chen

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Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Directed Search Models, Jaehong Kim and Gabriele Camera

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Why Did Ancient People Have Atherosclerosis?: From Autopsies to Computed Tomography to Potential Causes, Gregory S. Thomas, L. Samuel Wann, Adel H. Allam, Randall C. Thompson, David E. Michalik, M. Linda Sutherland, James D. Sutherland, Guido P. Lombardi, Lucia Watson, Samantha L. Cox, Clide M. Valladolid, Gomaa Abd el-Maksoud, Muhammad Al-Tohamy Soliman, Ibrahem Badr, Abd el-Halim Nur el-din, Emily M. Clarke, Ian G. Thomas, Michael I. Miyamoto, Hillard Kaplan, Bruno Frohlich, Jagat Narula, Alexandre F. R. Stewart, Albert Zink, and Caleb E. Finch

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Why Real Leisure Really Matters: Incentive Effects on Real Effort in the Laboratory, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hérnan-Gonzalez, and Eric Schniter

Submissions from 2013

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Age-Independent Increases in Male Salivary Testosterone During Horticultural Activity Among Tsimane Forager-Farmers, Benjamin C. Trumble, Daniel K. Cummings, Kathleen A. O'Connor, Darryl J. Holman, Eric A. Smith, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael D. Gurven

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Antagonism Between Two Intestinal Parasites in Humans: The Importance of Co-Infection for Infection Risk and Recovery Dynamics, Aaron D. Blackwell, Melanie Martin, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Cognitive Systems For Revenge and Forgiveness, Michael E. McCullough, Robert Kurzban, and Benjamin A. Tabak

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Comparative Approaches to Studying Strategy: Towards an Evolutionary Account of Primate Decision Making, Sarah F. Brosnan, Michael J. Beran, Audrey E. Parrish, Sara A. Price, and Bart J. Wilson

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Complementary Goods: Creating, Capturing And Competing For Value, Taylan Yalcin, Elie Ofek, Oded Koenigsbeg, and Eyal Biyalogorsky

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Consilience And Economics, Comment On Endogenous And Systemic Risk, Terence C. Burnham

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Do Liars Believe? Beliefs And Other-Regarding Preferences In Sender-Receiver Games, Roman M. Sheremeta and Timothy W. Shields

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Dynamical Structure of a Traditional Amazonian Social Network, Paul L. Hooper, Simon DeDeo, Ann E. Caldwell Hooper, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan

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Faith, Science and Religion, Vernon L. Smith

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Go West Young Man: Self-Selection and Endogenous Property Rights, Taylor Jaworski and Bart J. Wilson

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Household Task Delegation Among High-Fertility Forager-Horticulturalists of Lowland Bolivia, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Paul L. Hooper

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How Universal is the Big Five? Testing the Five-Factor Model of Personality Variation Among Forager-Farmers in the Bolivian Amazon, Michael Gurven, Christopher von Rueden, Maxim Massenkoff, Hillard Kaplan, and Marino Lero Vie

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Insiders, Outsiders, and the Adaptability of Informal Rules to Ecological Shocks, Erik O. Kimbrough and Bart J. Wilson

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Patterns of Senescence in Human Cardiovascular Fitness: Vo2 Max in Subsistence and Industrialized Populations, Anne C. Pisor, Michael Gurven, Aaron D. Blackwell, Hillard Kaplan, and Gandhi Yetish

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Physical Activity and Modernization Among Bolivian Amerindians, Michael Gurven, Adrian V. Jaeggi, Hillard Kaplan, and Daniel Cummings

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Polygyny Among the Tsimane of Bolivia: An Improved Method for Testing the Polygyny-Fertility Hypothesis, Jeffrey Winking, Jonathan Stieglitz, Jenna Kurten, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Reaction to Public Information in Markets: How much does Ambiguity Matter?, Brice Corgnet, Praveen Kujal, and David Porter

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Recalibrational Emotions and the Regulation of Trust-Based Behaviors, Eric Schniter and Timothy W. Shields

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The Number of Active Bidders in Internet Auctions, Laurens de Haan, Casper de Vries, and Chen Zhou

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Towards A Neo-Darwinian Synthesis Of Neoclassical And Behavioral Economics, Terence C. Burnham

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Transparency, Efficiency And The Distribution Of Economic Welfare In Pass-Through Investment Trust Games, Thomas A. Rietz, Roman M. Sheremeta, Timothy W. Shields, and Vernon L. Smith

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Using Laboratory Experiments in Logistics and Supply Chain Research, Cary Deck and Vernon L. Smith

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Violence, Access, and Competition in the Market for Protection, Douglas B. Rogers, Adam C. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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War of Attrition: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment on Market Exit, Ryan Oprea, Bart J. Wilson, and Arthur Zillante

Submissions from 2012

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Anarchy, Groups, and Conflict: An Experiment on the Emergence of Protective Associations, Adam C. Smith, David B. Skarbek, and Bart J. Wilson

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Coalitional Colonel Blotto Games with Application to the Economics of Alliances, Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

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Contra Private Fairness, Bart J. Wilson

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Does Blood Pressure Inevitably Rise With Age?: Longitudinal Evidence Among Forager-Horticulturalists, Michael Gurven, Aaron D. Blackwell, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Hillard Kaplan

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Fatty Acid Composition in the Mature Milk of Bolivian Forager-Horticulturalists: Controlled Comparisons With a US Sample, Melanie A. Martin, William D. Lassek, Steven J. C. Gaulin, Rhobert W. Evans, Sheela S. Geraghty, Barbara S. Davidson, Ardythe L. Morrow, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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From the Womb to the Tomb: The Role of Transfers in Shaping the Evolved Human Life History, Michael Gurven, Jonathan Stieglitz, Paul L. Hooper, Cristina Gomes, and Hillard Kaplan

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Infidelity, Jealousy, and Wife Abuse Among Tsimane Forager-Farmers: Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses of Marital Conflict, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Jeffrey Winking

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Information Effects in Multi-Unit Dutch Auctions, Joy A. Buchanan, Steven Gjerstad, and David Porter

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Modernization, Sexual Risk-Taking, and Gynecological Morbidity Among Bolivian Forager-Horticulturalists, Jonathan Stieglitz, Aaron D. Blackwell, Raúl Quispe Gutierrez, Edhitt Cortez Linares, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan

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Motivation through Goal Setting, Joaquín Gómez-Miñambres

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Old World Monkeys are More Similar to Humans than New World Monkeys When Playing a Coordination Game, Sarah F. Brosnan, Bart J. Wilson, and Michael J. Beran

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Peer Evaluations And Team Performance: When Friends Do Worse Than Strangers, Brice Corgnet

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Physical Competition Increases Testosterone Among Amazonian Forager-Horticulturalists: A Test of the 'Challenge Hypothesis', Benjamin C. Trumble, Daniel Cummings, Christopher von Rueden, Kathleen O'Connor, Eric A. Smith, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan

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Resource Adequacy: Should Regulators Worry?, Hernan D. Bejarano, Lance Clifner, Carl Johnston, Stephen J. Rassenti, and Vernon L. Smith

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Risk and the Evolution of Human Exchange, Hillard Kaplan, Eric Schniter, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture, Bart J. Wilson, Taylor Jaworski, Karl Schurter, and Andrew Smyth

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The Herodotus Paradox, Michael R. Baye, Dan Kovenock, and Casper G. de Vries

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The Lifeboat Problem, Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

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The Primacy of Entrepreneurs in Exploiting Long-Distance Exchange, Erik O. Kimbrough and Bart J. Wilson

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Underwater Recession, Vernon L. Smith, Joy A. Buchanan, and Steven D. Gjerstad

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Weakest-Link Attacker-Defender Games With Multiple Attack Technologies, Daniel G. Arce, Dan Kovenock, and Brian Roberson

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Why Do Women Have More Children Than They Want? Understanding Differences in Women's Ideal and Actual Family Size in a Natural Fertility Population, Lisa McAllister, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Jonathan Stieglitz

Submissions from 2011

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Decision Making and Trade without Probabilities, John Dickhaut, R. Lunawat, K. Pronin, and Jack Douglas Stecher

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Evidence for a Peak Shift in a Humoral Response to Helminths: Age Profiles of Ige in the Shuar of Ecuador, the Tsimane of Bolivia, and the U.S. Nhanes, Aaron D. Blackwell, Michael D. Gurven, Lawrence S. Sugiyama, Felicia C. Madimenos, Melissa A. Liebert, Melanie A. Martin, Hillard Kaplan, and J. Josh Snodgrass

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Father Death and Adult Success Among the Tsimane: Implications for Marriage and Divorce, Jeffrey Winking, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan

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Geography and Social Networks in Nascent Distal Exchange, Erik O. Kimbrough and Bart J. Wilson

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Inflammatory Gene Variants in the Tsimane, An Indigenous Bolivian Population With a High Infectious Load, Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, Caleb E. Finch, Eileen M. Crimmins, Suvi A. Vikman, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Hooman Allayee

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Radio Spectrum and the Disruptive Clarity of Ronald Coase, Thomas W. Hazlett, David P. Porter, and Vernon L. Smith

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Responses to the Assurance Game in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans Using Equivalent Procedures, Sarah F. Brosnan, Audrey E. Parrish, Michael J. Beran, Timothy Flemming, Lisa Heimbauer, Catherine F. Talbot, Susan P. Lambeth, Steven J. Schapiro, and Bart J. Wilson

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Saving Behavior and Cognitive Abilities, T. Parker Ballinger, Eric Hudson, Leonie Karkoviata, and Nathaniel Wilcox

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'Stochastically More Risk Averse:' A Contextual Theory of Stochastic Discrete Choice Under Risk, Nathaniel Wilcox

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The Territorial Foundations of Human Property, Peter DeScioli and Bart J. Wilson

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Using Experimental Economics to Understand Competition, Bart J. Wilson