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

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Submissions from 2011

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Why Do Men Seek Status? Fitness Payoffs to Dominance and Prestige, Christopher von Rueden, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan

Submissions from 2010

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An Experimental Analysis Of the Demand For Payday Loans, Bart J. Wilson, David W. Findlay, James W. Meehan Jr., Charissa P. Wellford, and Karl Schurter

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Blood Lipids, Infection, and Inflammatory Markers in the Tsimane of Bolivia, Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, Eileen M. Crimmins, Jung KI Kim, Jeff Winking, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Caleb Finch

Combinatorial Auctions, David Porter and Stephen J. Rassenti

Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields, Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

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Discovering Economics in the Classroom with Experimental Economics and the Scottish Enlightenment, Taylor Jaworski, S. Christian Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality: Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Horticulturalists, Michael Gurven, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Paul L. Hooper, Hillard Kaplan, Robert Quinlan, Rebecca Sear, Eric Schniter, Christopher von Rueden, Samuel Bowles, Tom Hertz, and Adrian Bell

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Exchange, Theft, and the Social Formation of Property, Erik O. Kimbrough

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More Information, More Ripoffs: Experiments with Public and Private Information in Markets with Asymmetric Information, Bart J. Wilson and Arthur Zillante

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Preference Reversals: The Impact of Truth-Revealing Monetary Incentives, Joyce E. Berg, John Dickhaut, and Thomas A. Rietz

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Social Preferences Aren't Preferences, Bart J. Wilson

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The Effect of Reliability, Content and Timing of Public Announcements on Asset Trading Behavior, Brice Corgnet, Praveen Kujal, and David Porter

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Theory and Experiment: What are the questions?, Vernon L. Smith

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The Social Strategy Game: Resource Competition Within Female Social Networks Among Small-Scale Forager-Horticulturalists, Stacey L. Rukas, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Jeffrey Winking

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What Would Adam Smith Think?, Vernon L. Smith

Submissions from 2009

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A Bioeconomic Approach to Marriage and the Sexual Division of Labor, Michael Gurven, Jeffrey Winking, Hillard Kaplan, Christopher von Rueden, and Lisa McAllister

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A Neuroeconomic Theory of the Decision Process, John Dickhaut, Aldo Rustichini, and Vernon L. Smith

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Bidding Your Way to the Launch Pad, David Porter and Randii R. Wessen

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Exchange and Specialisation as a Discovery Process, Sean Crockett, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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Honoring David Grether’s Contribution to Experimental Economics, David Porter

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Inflammation and Infection Do Not Promote Arterial Aging and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among Lean Horticulturalists, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Jeffrey Winking, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, Jung Ki Kim, Caleb Finch, and Eileen M. Crimmins

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Justice and Fairness In the Dictator Game, Karl Schurter and Bart J. Wilson

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Market Efficiencies and Drift: A Computational Model, John Dickhaut and Baohua Xin

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Monetary Policy, Credit Extension and Housing Bubbles: 2008 and 1929, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith

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Mysteries of Morality, Peter DeScioli and Robert Kurzban

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NeuroAccounting, John Dickhaut, Sudipta Basu, Kevin McCabe, and Gregory Waymire

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Recordkeeping Alters Economic History by Promoting Reciprocity, Sudipta Basu, John Dickhaut, Gary Hecht, Kristy Towry, and Gregory Waymire

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Stated Beliefs versus Inferred Beliefs: A Methodological Inquiry and Experimental Test, E. Elisabet Rutström and Nathaniel Wilcox

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The Brain as the Original Accounting Institution, John Dickhaut

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The Design, Testing and Implementation of Virginia's NOx Allowance Auction, David Porter, Stephen J. Rassenti, William Shobe, Vernon L. Smith, and Abel Winn

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The Evolutionary and Ecological Roots of Human Social Organization, Hillard Kaplan, Paul L. Hooper, and Michael Gurven

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The Role of Information Asymmetry in Escalation Phenomena: Empirical Evidence, Joyce E. Berg, John Dickhaut, and Chandra Kanodia

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We Age Because We Grow, Hillard Kaplan and Arthur J. Robson

Submissions from 2008

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Aging and Inflammation in Two Epidemiological Worlds, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Jeffrey Winking, Caleb Finch, and Eileen M. Crimmins

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Antitrust and Bundling Discounts: An Experimental Analysis, Timothy J. Muris and Vernon L. Smith

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Building a Market: From Personal to Impersonal Exchange, Erik O. Kimbrough, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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Discovery: A Memoir, Vernon L. Smith

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Exogenous Uncertainty Increases the Bid–Ask Spread in the Continuous Double Auction, Vernon L. Smith and Mark van Boening

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Experimental Gasoline Markets, Cary A. Deck and Bart J. Wilson

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Fixed Revenue Auctions, Cary Deck and Bart J. Wilson

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Handbook of Experimental Economic Results, Volume 1., Charles R. Plott and Vernon L. Smith

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Historical Property Rights, Sociality, and the Emergence of Impersonal Exchange in Long-Distance Trade, Erik O. Kimbrough, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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Incremental Approaches to Establishing Trust, Robert Kurzban, Mary L. Rigdon, and Bart J. Wilson

Introduction: Experimental Economics and Neuroeconomics in Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, Vernon L. Smith

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Language Games of Reciprocity, Bart J. Wilson

Neuroeconomics, John Dickhaut and Aldo Rustichini

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Second Chance Offers vs. Sequential Auctions: Theory and Behavior, Timothy C. Salmon and Bart J. Wilson

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Strategic Buyers, Horizontal Mergers and Synergies: An Experimental Investigation, Douglas D. Davis and Bart J. Wilson

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Thar She Blows: Can Bubbles Be Rekindled with Experienced Subjects?, Reshmaan N. Hussam, David P. Porter, and Vernon L. Smith

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Thar She Blows: Can Bubbles Be Rekindled with Experienced Subjects?, Reshmaan N. Hussam, David Porter, and Vernon L. Smith

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The Multiple Dimensions of Male Social Status in An Amazonian Society, Christopher von Rueden, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan

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The Promise of Prediction Markets, Kenneth J. Arrow, Robert Forsythe, Michael Gorham, Robert Hahn, Robin Hanson, John O. Ledyard, Saul Levmore, Robert Litan, Paul Milgrom, Forest D. Nelson, George R. Neumann, Marco Ottaviani, Thomas C. Schelling, Robert J. Shiller, Vernon L. Smith, Erik Snowberg, Cass R. Sunstein, Paul C. Tetlock, Philip E. Tetlock, Hal R. Varian, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitzewitz

Submissions from 2007

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Culture Sometimes Matters: Intra-cultural Variation in Pro-social Behavior Among Tsimane Amerindians, Michael Gurven, Arianna Zanolini, and Eric Schniter

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Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms, Vernon L. Smith

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Why Do Men Marry and Why Do They Stray?, Jeffrey Winking, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven, and Stacey L. Rucas

Submissions from 2006

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Growth Rates and Life Histories in Twenty-Two Small-Scale Societies, Robert Walker, Michael Gurven, Kim Hill, Andrea Migliano, Napoleon Chagnon, Roberta De Souza, Gradimir Djurovic, Raymond Hames, A. Magdalena Hurtado, Karen Kramer, Hillard Kaplan, William J. Oliver, and Taro Yamauchi

Submissions from 2003

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The Evolution of Human Life Expectancy and Intelligence in Hunter-Gatherer Economies, Hillard Kaplan

Submissions from 2002

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The Emergence of Humans: The Coevolution of Intelligence and Longevity With Intergenerational Transfers, Hillard Kaplan and Arthur J. Robson