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Jean Ensminger
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 38
Citations - 6546
Jean Ensminger is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Experimental economics & Ultimatum game. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 38 publications receiving 6099 citations. Previous affiliations of Jean Ensminger include Northwestern University & Washington University in St. Louis.
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“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies
Joseph Henrich,Robert Boyd,Samuel Bowles,Colin F. Camerer,Ernst Fehr,Herbert Gintis,Richard McElreath,Michael Alvard,Abigail Barr,Jean Ensminger,Natalie Smith Henrich,Kim Hill,Francisco J. Gil-White,Michael Gurven,Frank W. Marlowe,John Q. Patton,David P. Tracer +16 more
TL;DR: A cross-cultural study of behavior in ultimatum, public goods, and dictator games in a range of small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of economic and cultural conditions found the canonical model – based on self-interest – fails in all of the societies studied.
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Costly Punishment Across Human Societies
Joseph Henrich,Richard McElreath,Abigail Barr,Jean Ensminger,Clark Barrett,Alexander Bolyanatz,Juan Camilo Cárdenas,Michael Gurven,Edwins Gwako,Natalie Henrich,Carolyn Lesorogol,Frank W. Marlowe,David P. Tracer,John P. Ziker +13 more
TL;DR: Experimental results from 15 diverse populations show that all populations demonstrate some willingness to administer costly punishment as unequal behavior increases, and the magnitude of this punishment varies substantially across populations, and costly punishment positively covaries with altruistic behavior across populations.
Supporting Online Material for Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
Joseph Henrich,Jean Ensminger,Richard McElreath,Abigail Barr,Clark Barrett,Alexander Bolyanatz,Juan Camilo Cárdenas,Michael Gurven,Edwins Gwako,Natalie Smith Henrich,Carolyn Lesorogol,Frank W. Marlowe,David P. Tracer,John P. Ziker +13 more
TL;DR: Fairness is measured in thousands of individuals from 15 contemporary, small-scale societies to gain an understanding of the evolution of trustworthy exchange among human societies and shows that market integration positively covaries with fairness while community size positively covary with punishment.
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Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment.
Joseph Henrich,Jean Ensminger,Richard McElreath,Abigail Barr,Clark Barrett,Alexander Bolyanatz,Juan Camilo Cárdenas,Michael Gurven,Edwins Gwako,Natalie Henrich,Carolyn Lesorogol,Frank W. Marlowe,David P. Tracer,John P. Ziker +13 more
TL;DR: This article found that participation in a world religion is associated with fairness, although not across all measures, and that market integration positively correlates with fairness while community size positively covaries with punishment.
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Making a market : the institutional transformation of an African society
TL;DR: The history of trade among the Orma and the distribution of the gains from trade can be found in this article, where a proper marriage is described as a new institutional economic anthropology.