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Working Papers

2023

1. The Evolution of Ostracism in Human Societies
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science
2. Zero-Sum Environments, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2021

3. Small gods, rituals, and cooperation: the Mentawai water spirit Sikameinan
   Post-Print, HAL

2017

4. Corrupting cooperation and how anti-corruption strategies may backfire
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (20)
   See also Journal Article Corrupting cooperation and how anti-corruption strategies may backfire, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature (2017) View citations (18) (2017)

2016

5. Can War Foster Cooperation?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (240)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2016) View citations (230)
   HiCN Working Papers, Households in Conflict Network (2016) View citations (180)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2016) View citations (241)
   Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2016) View citations (180)
   See also Journal Article Can War Foster Cooperation?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2016) View citations (241) (2016)

2010

6. The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religio
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (17)
7. The Weirdest People in the World?
   RatSWD Working Papers, German Data Forum (RatSWD) View citations (511)

2009

8. Homo Aequalis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games
   Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (18)
   Also in CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2009) View citations (4)

2007

9. Division of Labor, Economic Specialization and the Evolution of Social Stratification
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography View citations (1)
10. The evolution of costly displays, cooperation, and religion. Inferentially potent displays and their implications for cultural evolution
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography

2003

11. In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small- Scale Societies
    Microeconomics, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (53)
    See also Journal Article In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2001) View citations (679) (2001)
12. Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (27)
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2003) View citations (14)
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2003) View citations (33)

2002

13. Are peasants risk-averse decision makers?
    Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (55)

2001

14. Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (45)
15. Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (39)
16. In search of homo economicus: Experiments in 15 small-scale societies
    Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (552)

2000

17. Does culture matter in economic behavior? Ultimatum game bargaining among the machiguenga
    Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (169)

Undated

18. Markets Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
    IEW - Working Papers, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich

Journal Articles

2023

1. Machine culture
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2023, 7, (11), 1855-1868 View citations (1)

2021

2. Tabulated nonsense? Testing the validity of the Ethnographic Atlas
   Economics Letters, 2021, 204, (C) View citations (11)

2019

3. A problem in theory
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2019, 3, (3), 221-229 View citations (17)
4. War increases religiosity
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2019, 3, (2), 129-135 View citations (19)
5. Work time and market integration in the original affluent society
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, 116, (44), 22100-22105 View citations (3)

2017

6. Corrupting cooperation and how anti-corruption strategies may backfire
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2017, 1, (7), 1-5 View citations (18)
   See also Working Paper Corrupting cooperation and how anti-corruption strategies may backfire, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2017) View citations (20) (2017)

2016

7. Can War Foster Cooperation?
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30, (3), 249-74 View citations (241)
   See also Working Paper Can War Foster Cooperation?, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (240) (2016)

2005

8. Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members
   Nature, 2005, 437, (7063), 1357-1359 View citations (18)

2004

9. Cultural group selection, coevolutionary processes and large-scale cooperation
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 53, (1), 3-35 View citations (212)
10. Inequity aversion in capuchins?
    Nature, 2004, 428, (6979), 139-139
11. Reply
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 53, (1), 127-143 View citations (1)

2001

12. In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies
    American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 73-78 View citations (679)
    See also Working Paper In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small- Scale Societies, Microeconomics (2003) View citations (53) (2003)

2000

13. Does Culture Matter in Economic Behavior? Ultimatum Game Bargaining among the Machiguenga of the Peruvian Amazon
    American Economic Review, 2000, 90, (4), 973-979 View citations (163)

Edited books

2004

1. Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (365)