Lilian Apaza
Biographic Data
| ID | 645317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lilian Apaza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lilian |
| FAMILY NAME | Apaza |
| SIGNATURE | APAZA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Mayor de San Andrés |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Income inequality and adult nutritional status
Market Economy and the Loss of Folk Knowledge of Plant Uses
Patience in a Foraging-Horticultural Society
Patience, or the ability to delay gratification, matters in the behavioral and medical sciences and in public policy because it correlates with a wide range of desirable outcomes. For instance, patience correlates positively with income, wealth, conservation of natural resources, health, and savings and negatively with crime and drug addiction. Anthropologists have made few contributions to cross-cultural studies of patience despite its importanc…
Measuring Culture as Shared Knowledge
In this article, the authors contribute to the empirical study of culture as shared knowledge by exploring correlations of individual responses to different questionnaires of the same tasks and correlation of individual responses to different tasks. They collected data on ethnobotanical knowledge from 149 adult Tsimane' Amerindians in Bolivia. The authors used a cultural consensus model to calculate individual scores of cultural knowledge for eac…
Do Markets Worsen Economic Inequalities? Kuznets in the Bush
Validity of Self-Reports to Measure Deforestation
To assess rates of deforestation, researchers typically use questionnaires. But do questionnaires provide accurate information about the extent of forest clearance by households? In this article, the authors provide data on the amount of deforestation in a Tsimane' Amerindian village (Bolivia) and assess informant error by cross-checking three different assessments: (1) a direct physical measure by a research team of each plot cleared from the fo…
Correlates of delay-discount rates
Market Economy and the Loss of Folk Knowledge of Plant Uses
Income inequality and adult nutritional status
Measuring Culture as Shared Knowledge
In this article, the authors contribute to the empirical study of culture as shared knowledge by exploring correlations of individual responses to different questionnaires of the same tasks and correlation of individual responses to different tasks. They collected data on ethnobotanical knowledge from 149 adult Tsimane' Amerindians in Bolivia. The authors used a cultural consensus model to calculate individual scores of cultural knowledge for eac…
Do Markets Worsen Economic Inequalities? Kuznets in the Bush
Correlates of delay-discount rates
Validity of Self-Reports to Measure Deforestation
To assess rates of deforestation, researchers typically use questionnaires. But do questionnaires provide accurate information about the extent of forest clearance by households? In this article, the authors provide data on the amount of deforestation in a Tsimane' Amerindian village (Bolivia) and assess informant error by cross-checking three different assessments: (1) a direct physical measure by a research team of each plot cleared from the fo…
Patience in a Foraging-Horticultural Society
Patience, or the ability to delay gratification, matters in the behavioral and medical sciences and in public policy because it correlates with a wide range of desirable outcomes. For instance, patience correlates positively with income, wealth, conservation of natural resources, health, and savings and negatively with crime and drug addiction. Anthropologists have made few contributions to cross-cultural studies of patience despite its importanc…
Correlates of delay-discount rates
Validity of Self-Reports to Measure Deforestation
To assess rates of deforestation, researchers typically use questionnaires. But do questionnaires provide accurate information about the extent of forest clearance by households? In this article, the authors provide data on the amount of deforestation in a Tsimane' Amerindian village (Bolivia) and assess informant error by cross-checking three different assessments: (1) a direct physical measure by a research team of each plot cleared from the fo…
Patience in a Foraging-Horticultural Society
Patience, or the ability to delay gratification, matters in the behavioral and medical sciences and in public policy because it correlates with a wide range of desirable outcomes. For instance, patience correlates positively with income, wealth, conservation of natural resources, health, and savings and negatively with crime and drug addiction. Anthropologists have made few contributions to cross-cultural studies of patience despite its importanc…
Measuring Culture as Shared Knowledge
In this article, the authors contribute to the empirical study of culture as shared knowledge by exploring correlations of individual responses to different questionnaires of the same tasks and correlation of individual responses to different tasks. They collected data on ethnobotanical knowledge from 149 adult Tsimane' Amerindians in Bolivia. The authors used a cultural consensus model to calculate individual scores of cultural knowledge for eac…
Do Markets Worsen Economic Inequalities? Kuznets in the Bush
Income inequality and adult nutritional status
Market Economy and the Loss of Folk Knowledge of Plant Uses
Geography (5 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works)