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2011

Networks, Finance, and Development: Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers Farzad Saidi

Sibling composition during childhood and adult blood pressure in a native Amazonian society of Bolivia Wu Zeng, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Sabita Parida, Ariela Zycherman, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Victoria Reyes-Garcîa, Susan Tanner, Bolivian TAPS study team, and Ricardo Godoy

Textural classification of land cover using support vector machines: an empirical comparison with parametric, non parametric and hybrid classifiers in the Bolivian Amazon Jaime Paneque-Gálvez, Jean-François Mas, Gerard Moré, Jordi Cristóbal, Martí Orta-Martínez, Ana Catarina Luz, Maximiliem Guèze, Manuel Macía, Victoria Reyes-García

The use of primary data for cross-cultural research: An example from five Amazonian societies Victoria Reyes-García, Carla Morsello, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén

The Effects of Processing Non-timber Forest Products and Trade Partnerships on People's Well-being and Forest Conservation in Amazonian Societies Carla Morsello, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Victoria Reyes-García

The perceived benefits of adult and child height: Strength, dominance, social concern, and knowledge among Bolivian native Amazonians Ricardo Godoy, Leslie Zebrowitz, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Dan T. Eisenberg, Victoria Reyes-García, and TAPS Bolivia Study Team

Short-run effects of one-time, in-kind income transfers and reduction in village income inequality on well-being: Results from a randomized controlled trial among native Amazonians in Bolivia Jere R. Behrman, Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Goodman, Eduardo A. Undurraga, William R. Leonard, and TAPS Bolivia Study Team


2010

Musical chord preference: Cultural or universal? Happiness and chord harmonies in a native Amazonian society Eduardo Undurraga, Nicholas Emlem, Maximilien Gueze, Dan Eisenberg, Tomás Huanca, Victoria Reyes-García, Victoria Razumova, Karen Godoy, TAPS Bolivia Study Team and Ricardo Godoy.
Listen to the stimuli used in the experiment, as shown in Table 1 of the paper(2.1 MB each): File 1 / File 2 / File 3 / File 4

Integration to the market economy, social capital, and credit: Estimates with longitudinal data from an Amazonian society Victoria Reyes-García, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Tomás Huanca, Thomas W. McDade, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner, TAPS Bolivian Study Team

The effects local medicinal knowledge and hygiene in Helminth infections in an Amazonian society Susan Tanner, Maria Esther Chuqimia Choque, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade, Victoria Reyes-García [See version in journal article]

Sib composition and child educational attainment: Theory and evidence from native Amazonians in Bolivia Wu Zeng, Karla Rubio Jovel, Eduardo A. Undurraga, James Broesch, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Colleen Nyberg, Susan Tanner, Victoria Reyes-García, Thomas W. McDade, William R. Leonard, Yuan Ma, Tomás Huanca, Ricardo Godoy, TAPS Bolivian Study Team

Does participatory mapping increase conflict? A randomized experimental evaluation in the Bolivian Amazon Victoria Reyes-García, Marti Orta-Martínez, Maximilien Gueze, Ana C Luz, Jaime Paneque-Gálvez, Manuel J Macía, Joan Pino, Jordi Cristobal, TAPS Bolivian Study Team

Presence and purpose of non-indigenous peoples on indigenous lands. A descriptive account from the Bolivian lowlands Soiciety & Natural Resources, USNR-2009-0234-R1 [See version in journal article]

Measuring traditional ecological knowledge: Does knowledge mean skill? Eric P. Kightley, Victoria Reyes-García, Kathryn Demps, Ruth V. Magtanong, Victoria Ramonez, Gayatri Thampy, John R. Stepp

Adult Body Mass and Body Fat Associated with Consumption of Traditional Food and Good Health: Evidence from Native Amazonians Wu Zeng, Dan Eisenberg, Karla Jovel, Eduardo Undurruga, Colleen Nyberg, Susan Tanner, Victoria Reyes-García, William Leonard, Juliana Castano, Tomas Huanca, Thomas McDade, Ricardo Godoy, TAPS Bolivia Team


2009

Schooling and local environmental knowledge: Do they complement or substitute each other? Victoria Reyes-García, Eric Kightley, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Nuria Fuentes-Peláez, Katie Demps, Tomás Huanca, Maria Martínez-Rodríguez [See version in journal article]

Cultural consonance and psychological well-being V. Reyes-García, C. Gravlee, T. McDade, T. Huanca, W. Leonard, S. Tanner [See version in journal article]

Testing a poverty trap mechanism with Tsimane' panel data Emilie Perge, University of Sussex

Modernization and culture loss: A natural experiment among native Amazonians in Bolivia Karla Rubio Jovel, Eduardo Undurraga, Obiko Magvanjav, Clarence Gravlee, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade, Victoria Reyes-García, Susan Tanner, Ricardo Godoy, and TAPS team

“The Soul Reveals Itself by Way Of The Flesh” Facial cues and human perception: A study from the Bolivian Amazon Eduardo Undurraga, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Leslie Zebrowitz, Ruoxue Wang, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade, Victoria Reyes-García, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T. A. Eisenberg, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca, Ricardo Godoy, and TAPS team [See version in journal article]

Moving beyond a snapshot to understand changes in the well-being of native Amazonians: Panel Evidence (2002-2006) from Bolivia Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Clarence Gravlee, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Tomas W. McDade, Susan Tanner [See version in journal article]

Influence of helminth infections on childhood nutritional status in lowland Bolivia Susan Tanner, William R. Leonard, Tomas W. McDade, Victoria Reyes-García, Ricardo Godoy, Tomás Huanca [See version in journal article]

Short but growing: Catch-up growth among native Amazonian Bolivian children Ricardo Godoy, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Eliezer Shinnar, William R. Leonard, Clarence Gravlee, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomas W. McDade, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, and TAPS Bolivia Study Team [See version in journal article]

Why no adult stunting penalty or height premium? Estimates from native Amazonians in Bolivia Ricardo Godoy, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Tomas W. McDade, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, Clarence Gravlee, and TAPS Bolivia Study Team [See version in journal article]

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2008

Individual wealth rank, community wealth inequality, and self-reported adult poor health Ricardo Godoy, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Tomas W. McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, and TAPS Bolivia Study Team [See version in journal article]

Does Civilization cause discontenment among indigenous Amazonians? Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Zeinalova, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, Holly Kosiewicz, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner, and TAPS Bolivian Study Team [See version in journal article]

The Effect of Real Income on Wildlife Consumption Among Native Amazonians in Bolivia Ricardo Godoy, David Wilkie, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, and TAPS Bolivia team [See version in journal article]

Short and long-run effects of household income on household forest clearance among native Amazonians: Panel evidence (2002-2006) from the Tsimane’, Bolivia Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca, Vincent Vadez, David Wilkie, and TAPS Bolivia Study Team [See version in journal article]

Effects of future weather on foraging and farming productivity: Implications for farming's diffusion Ricardo Godoy, Ori Heffetz, Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Sanjay Kumar, Javed Iqbal, David Wilkie, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca, and TAPS Bolivia Study Team [See version in journal article]

Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical competence: An empirical analysis from a society of foragers and farmers Victoria Reyes-García, James Broesch, Soroush Parsa, Laura Calvet, Nuria Fuentes, Thomas W. McDade, Susan Tanner, Ricardo Godoy, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Maria Ruth Martínez, and TAPS Bolivian study team [See version in journal article]

Social rank and adult male nutritional status: Evidence of the social gradient of health from a foraging-farming society TAPS Bolivian Study Team [See version in journal article]

Ethnobotanical knowledge and crop diversity in swidden fields: A study in a native Amazonian society Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Neus Martí, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner [See version in journal article]

The pay-offs to sociability: Do solitary and social leisure relate to happiness? Victoria Reyes-García,, Ricardo A. Godoy, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, María Ruth Martínez-Rodríguez, TAPS Bolivian Study Team [See version in journal article]

Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS): The first five years (2002-2006) of data available to the public in 2008 William R. Leonard and Ricardo Godoy [See version in journal article]

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2007

Maintenance vs. growth: Investigating the costs of immune activation among children in lowland Bolivia T. W. McDade, V. Reyes-García, S. Tanner, T. Huanca, W. R. Leonard [See version in journal article]

Climate and Child Height among Native Amazonians R. Godoy, E. Goodman, V. Reyes-García, D. Eisenberg, W. R. Leonard, T. Huanca, T. W. McDade, S. Tanner, TAPS Bolivian Research Team [See version in journal article]

Assortative mating and offspring well-being: Theory and empirical findings from a native Amazonia R. Godoy, D. Eisenberg, V. Reyes-García, T. Huanca, W. R. Leonard, T. W. McDade, S. Tanner, TAPS Bolivian Research Team [See version in journal article]

Anthropometric Indicators of Children and Young Adults and Rainfall in a Native R. Godoy, D. Eisenberg, V. Reyes-García, T. Huanca, W.R. Leonard, T.W. McDade, S. Tanner, M. Vento, and TAPS Bolivian Study Team

Can We Trust an Adult‘s Estimate of Parental School Attainment? Ricardo Godoy, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Victoria Reyes-García, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca [See version in journal article]

Parental preference, bargaining power, and child nutritional status: Evidence from the Bolivian Amazon Ankur M. Patel, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Thomas McDade, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez

Rainfall amount and variability during gestation and early childhood and adult height in a foraging and horticultural society of the Bolivian Amazon Ricardo Godoy, Susan Tanner, Ian C. Fitzpatrick, Peter Giovannini, Melanie Vento, Naveen Jha, William R. Leonard [See version in journal article]

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2006

Does modernization erode the secular trend of indigenous knowledge? Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, James Broesch, Ian C. Fitzpatrick, Peter Giovannini, Maria Ruth Martínez Rodríguez, Naveen Jha, Tomás Huanca

Ethnobotanical skills and clearance of tropical rainforest for agriculture Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner [See version in journal article]

Economic development and local ecological knowledge: a deadlock? Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade [See version in journal article]

On the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society Ankur M. Patel, Ricardo A. Godoy, Craig Seyfried, Victoria Reyes-García [See version in journal article]

The pay-offs to sociability: Solitary and social leisure and happiness Victoria Reyes-García, Ricardo Godoy, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, James Broesch, Ian Fitzpatrick, Drew Gerkey, Peter Giovannini [See version in journal article]

Ethnobotanical knowledge correlates with crop diversity: Evidence from a native Amazonian society Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Neus Marí, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner [See version in journal article]

How poor are people in autarky? On the measure of income in autarky and the economic (un)importance of social capital Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, Craig Seyfried Jr

Signaling by consumption: Income shocks and intra-household expenditure allocations in autarky Ricardo Godoy, Craig Seyfried Jr., Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade [See version in journal article]

Measuring what people know about the environment: A review of quantitative studies Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade [See version in journal article]

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2005

The effect of market economies on the well-being of indigenous peoples and on their use of natural resources Annual Review of Anthropology. Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Byron, William R. Leonard, Vincent Vadez. 2005. In press [See version in journal article]

Why do mothers favor girls and fathers boys? A hypothesis and test of intra-household girl-boy investment disparity Human Nature Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Thomas McDade Susan Tanner, William R. Leonard Tomás Huanca, Vincent Vadez, Karishma Patel. 2005. In press. [See version in journal article]

Physical stature of adult Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century Economics and Human Biology. Ricardo Godoy, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Goodman, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez. 2005. In press [See version in journal article]

Human body-mass index (kg/mt2) is a useful proxy to assess the effect of income on wildlife consumption in low-income rural societies Biodiversity and Conservation. Ricardo Godoy, David Wilkie, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Tomás Huanca, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez, Susan Tanner. 2005. In press [See version in journal article]

How well do people in autarky protect food consumption? Panel evidence from foragers and farmers in the Bolivian Amazon Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, William R. Leonard, Elizabeth Byron

Non-market returns to traditional and modern human capital: Nutritional status in a native Amazonian society Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Ricardo Godoy, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner [See version in journal article]

Language skills and earnings: Evidence from a pre-industrial economy in the Bolivian Amazon Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez [See version in journal article]

Does village inequality in modern income harm the psyche? Anger, fear, sadness, and alcohol in a pre-industrial economy Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Thomas McDade, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez [See version in journal article]

Spousal empowerment and nutritional status among native Amazonians Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Ankur Patel, Tomás Huanca, Mariana Caram, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, Cynthia Valdés-Galicia [See version in journal article]

Methods for collecting panel data: What can cultural anthropology learn from other disciplines? Gravlee, Lance, David Kennedy, Ricardo Godoy, William R. Leonard [See version in journal article]

BMI, income, and social capital in a pre-industrial society of the Bolivian Amazon: Interaction between relative and community effects Marek Brabec, Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard [See version in journal article]

The role of community and individuals in the formation of social capital Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez [See version in journal article]

Melancholy and weight change: Panel evidence from a pre-industrial economy in the Bolivian Amazon Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Goodman. Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez

Income inequality and deforestation: Evidence from a small-scale, pre-industrial society in the Bolivian Amazon Oscar Zapata-Ríos, Vincent Vadez, Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard

Interviewer bias: Lessons from panel and cross-sectional surveys from a native Amazonian society Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Byron, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard

Almost ten years since decentralization laws in Bolivia: Status quo or improvement for the lowland indigenous people? Evidence from the Tsimane’ Amerindians of the Beni Vincent Vadez and Victoria Reyes-García

Schooling’s contribution to social capital: An instrumental-variable approach with data from a native Amazonian society Ricardo Godoy, Craig Seyfried Jr., Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vades. TAPS-WP-17-Nov-2005. In preparation for special edition of Comparative Education on ‘Western Psychological and Educational Theory in Diverse Contexts’, edited by Julian Elliott and Elena Grigorenko [See version in journal article]

Cash cropping, farm technologies, and deforestation: What are the connections? A model with empirical data from the Bolivian Amazon Vincent Vadez, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard [See version in journal article]

Individual and group incentives to invest in pro-social behavior: An empirical study in the Bolivian Amazon Journal of Anthropological Research. V. Reyes-García, Ricardo Godoy, Vincent Vadez, Tomás Huanca, and William R. Leonard

Indigenous knowledge and consumption of wild plants: A comparative study of two Tsimane’ villages in the Bolivian Amazon Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Tomás Huanca, William Leonard, David Wilkie. [See version in journal article]

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