Jonathan Bauchet
Biographic Data
| ID | 111145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Bauchet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauchet |
| SIGNATURE | BAUCHET J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0583-5678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Adult temporal mobility (2002-2010) in material wealth and physical health, self-perceived health, sociality, and use of addictive substances: Insights from an observational exploratory panel study am…
Changes in relative socioeconomic rank during adulthood (intragenerational mobility) are increasingly recognized as important determinants of health and other well-being indicators. Quantitative studies in high-income countries find that mobility in rank generally correlates with these outcomes, but the direction and mechanisms remain unclear. Evidence from small-scale societies is scarcer due to limited panel data. We examine the correlation bet…
The unexpected role of conditionality in shaping relational values: Evidence from a Bolivian incentive-based conservation program
As global change accelerates, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs have become increasingly important tools for addressing the interconnected challenges of land degradation, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and climate change. PES programs provide incentives to individuals or communities, conditional on people adopting sustainable natural resource management practices to support or increase ecosystem service provisioning. Although con…
Long panel studies of small-scale rural societies in the Global South: What is their value, why are they rare, and suggestions to make them happen
Many topics in the behavioral sciences and epidemiology require researchers to directly observe entities (e.g., individuals, households) over a long time to identify lasting effects. Long-term panel data collection is more common in high-income countries than in small-scale rural societies (SSRS) of low-income countries. SSRS are mobile, nature-dependent, linguistic minorities, and highly autarkic. Analyzing such data using a life-course perspect…
Economic convergence, intragenerational economic mobility, and inequality in a native Amazonian small-scale society of Indigenous People in Bolivia
Adult intragenerational rank mobility matters for quality of life. • There are no quantitative studies of intragenerational mobility in small-scale societies. • Mobility study of Tsimane’ Indigenous People in Bolivia starts to fill the gap. • Like developed economies, pockets of rank immobility appear at the top. • But there was also more rank mobility & the bottom (especially men) converged fast. Adult intragenerational mobility reflects society…
Social networks and the demand for credence agricultural technologies
Changes in adult well-being and economic inequalities: An exploratory observational longitudinal study (2002–2010) of micro-level trends among Tsimane’, a small-scale rural society of Indigenous Peopl…
Knowing what happens over time to the lifeways of people in contemporary small-scale non-industrial societies of the rural Global South matters because it helps assess changes in the quality of life of underrepresented groups. It has been hard to answer the question because longitudinal information is rarely collected in such settings. A longitudinal dataset of nine years (2002–2010) from a horticultural-foraging society of Indigenous People in t…
A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science
Compliance under control: Insights from an incentive-based conservation program in rural Bolivia
Centering Community Voices in Mining Governance
Peru has shifted away from centralized mining management to governance among government, companies, and communities. Various mechanisms facilitate community participation, including the mining canon, dialogues, and corporate social responsibility programs. Even with these laws and mechanisms, mining pollution and conflicts continue. In this study, we ask: how do communities perceive and participate in mining governance? And what are some alternat…
Linking migration to community resilience in the receiving basin of a large-scale water transfer project
Large-scale water transfer projects (LWTPs) transfer water to urban and agricultural areas. The Majes-Siguas canal, established in 1983, is an LWTP that created a thriving agricultural area through irrigating the Majes district in the Atacama Desert of Peru. Like other LWTP receiving basins, the project has attracted an influx of migrants who work on the farms. At the same time, the Majes LWTP is the district’s only source of water and has an agi…
Incomplete Information and Product Quality in Rural Markets: Evidence from an Experimental Auction for Maize in Senegal
Quickly drying grains to a low, safe moisture content is key to increasing their storability and limiting the spread of aflatoxins, potent carcinogenic toxins for children, adults, and livestock. The extent to which people can observe and value moisture content in grain matters because it determines whether markets create the appropriate incentives for actors to dry maize to a safe level for storage. We use an experimental auction with traders an…
Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change
People from across the Caylloma Province of Peru are adapting to social-ecological changes, such as decreasing water supplies and rapidly retreating glaciers, in different and unequal ways. In this study, we show how this inequality is intersectional; identities like gender and age compound and interact with systems of power to shape how people adapt to these changes at the individual, household, and district scales. We draw from 130 semi-structu…
Market Engagement and Indigenous People: Testing Hypotheses from the Western Intellectual Tradition
Autarkic indigenous societies are changing fast from increased engagement with markets. Western writers have ascribed a wide array of often contradictory effects to markets, including greater sociability, increased consumption of temptation goods, greater industriousness, and lower adherence to local beliefs. We test the four hypotheses using data from Tsimane', a native Amazonian society in Bolivia. 500 participants aged ≥16y were tracked annual…
Variety of indigenous peoples’ opinions of large infrastructure projects: The Tipnis road in the Bolivian Amazon
Paying in pieces: A natural experiment on demand for life insurance under different payment schemes
Asymmetric Information in Microinsurance Markets: Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Microinsurers strive to simplify products and their pricing, a trend that runs counter to the customization and complex underwriting of insurance in richer markets. Although necessary to reduce costs and reach wide scale, this trend opens microinsurance markets to potential problems from information asymmetry. We use a large data set from a Mexican bank that offers a life insurance policy to its borrowers at a single rate. We exploit an exogenous…
Rosca Composition and Repayment: Evidence from Taiwanese Bidding Roscas
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) are widespread and remain a key financial management tool for poor individuals. We analyse data from Taiwanese bidding ROSCAs and focus on how social relationships within the group influence contribution behaviour and ROSCA failure. We find that less socially-connected participants were more likely to receive the pot early in the cycle, which increases their incentive to default, yet contrary to a…
Conditional cash transfers for primary education: Which children are left out
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs to increase primary-school enrollment and attendance among low-income households have been shown to benefit children and households, but to date little is known about who joins such programs. We test three hypotheses about predictors of CCT program participation in indigenous societies in Bolivia, focusing on attributes of the household (ethnicity), parents (modern human capital), and children (age, sex). …
Comparison of Direct Transfers for Human Capital Development and Environmental Conservation
Failure vs. displacement: Why an innovative anti-poverty program showed no net impact in South India
Is Micro too Small? Microcredit vs. SME Finance
The Role of Community and Individuals in the Formation of Social Capital
Human capital, wealth, and nutrition in the Bolivian Amazon
Human capital, wealth, and nutrition in the Bolivian Amazon
Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change
People from across the Caylloma Province of Peru are adapting to social-ecological changes, such as decreasing water supplies and rapidly retreating glaciers, in different and unequal ways. In this study, we show how this inequality is intersectional; identities like gender and age compound and interact with systems of power to shape how people adapt to these changes at the individual, household, and district scales. We draw from 130 semi-structu…
Comparison of Direct Transfers for Human Capital Development and Environmental Conservation
Failure vs. displacement: Why an innovative anti-poverty program showed no net impact in South India
Variety of indigenous peoples’ opinions of large infrastructure projects: The Tipnis road in the Bolivian Amazon
Conditional cash transfers for primary education: Which children are left out
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs to increase primary-school enrollment and attendance among low-income households have been shown to benefit children and households, but to date little is known about who joins such programs. We test three hypotheses about predictors of CCT program participation in indigenous societies in Bolivia, focusing on attributes of the household (ethnicity), parents (modern human capital), and children (age, sex). …
The Role of Community and Individuals in the Formation of Social Capital
Is Micro too Small? Microcredit vs. SME Finance
Social networks and the demand for credence agricultural technologies
A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science
Linking migration to community resilience in the receiving basin of a large-scale water transfer project
Large-scale water transfer projects (LWTPs) transfer water to urban and agricultural areas. The Majes-Siguas canal, established in 1983, is an LWTP that created a thriving agricultural area through irrigating the Majes district in the Atacama Desert of Peru. Like other LWTP receiving basins, the project has attracted an influx of migrants who work on the farms. At the same time, the Majes LWTP is the district’s only source of water and has an agi…
Market Engagement and Indigenous People: Testing Hypotheses from the Western Intellectual Tradition
Autarkic indigenous societies are changing fast from increased engagement with markets. Western writers have ascribed a wide array of often contradictory effects to markets, including greater sociability, increased consumption of temptation goods, greater industriousness, and lower adherence to local beliefs. We test the four hypotheses using data from Tsimane', a native Amazonian society in Bolivia. 500 participants aged ≥16y were tracked annual…
Human capital, wealth, and nutrition in the Bolivian Amazon
The Role of Community and Individuals in the Formation of Social Capital
Is Micro too Small? Microcredit vs. SME Finance
Failure vs. displacement: Why an innovative anti-poverty program showed no net impact in South India
Comparison of Direct Transfers for Human Capital Development and Environmental Conservation
Rosca Composition and Repayment: Evidence from Taiwanese Bidding Roscas
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) are widespread and remain a key financial management tool for poor individuals. We analyse data from Taiwanese bidding ROSCAs and focus on how social relationships within the group influence contribution behaviour and ROSCA failure. We find that less socially-connected participants were more likely to receive the pot early in the cycle, which increases their incentive to default, yet contrary to a…
Conditional cash transfers for primary education: Which children are left out
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs to increase primary-school enrollment and attendance among low-income households have been shown to benefit children and households, but to date little is known about who joins such programs. We test three hypotheses about predictors of CCT program participation in indigenous societies in Bolivia, focusing on attributes of the household (ethnicity), parents (modern human capital), and children (age, sex). …
Variety of indigenous peoples’ opinions of large infrastructure projects: The Tipnis road in the Bolivian Amazon
Paying in pieces: A natural experiment on demand for life insurance under different payment schemes
Asymmetric Information in Microinsurance Markets: Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Microinsurers strive to simplify products and their pricing, a trend that runs counter to the customization and complex underwriting of insurance in richer markets. Although necessary to reduce costs and reach wide scale, this trend opens microinsurance markets to potential problems from information asymmetry. We use a large data set from a Mexican bank that offers a life insurance policy to its borrowers at a single rate. We exploit an exogenous…
Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change
People from across the Caylloma Province of Peru are adapting to social-ecological changes, such as decreasing water supplies and rapidly retreating glaciers, in different and unequal ways. In this study, we show how this inequality is intersectional; identities like gender and age compound and interact with systems of power to shape how people adapt to these changes at the individual, household, and district scales. We draw from 130 semi-structu…
Market Engagement and Indigenous People: Testing Hypotheses from the Western Intellectual Tradition
Autarkic indigenous societies are changing fast from increased engagement with markets. Western writers have ascribed a wide array of often contradictory effects to markets, including greater sociability, increased consumption of temptation goods, greater industriousness, and lower adherence to local beliefs. We test the four hypotheses using data from Tsimane', a native Amazonian society in Bolivia. 500 participants aged ≥16y were tracked annual…
Incomplete Information and Product Quality in Rural Markets: Evidence from an Experimental Auction for Maize in Senegal
Quickly drying grains to a low, safe moisture content is key to increasing their storability and limiting the spread of aflatoxins, potent carcinogenic toxins for children, adults, and livestock. The extent to which people can observe and value moisture content in grain matters because it determines whether markets create the appropriate incentives for actors to dry maize to a safe level for storage. We use an experimental auction with traders an…
Compliance under control: Insights from an incentive-based conservation program in rural Bolivia
Centering Community Voices in Mining Governance
Peru has shifted away from centralized mining management to governance among government, companies, and communities. Various mechanisms facilitate community participation, including the mining canon, dialogues, and corporate social responsibility programs. Even with these laws and mechanisms, mining pollution and conflicts continue. In this study, we ask: how do communities perceive and participate in mining governance? And what are some alternat…
Linking migration to community resilience in the receiving basin of a large-scale water transfer project
Large-scale water transfer projects (LWTPs) transfer water to urban and agricultural areas. The Majes-Siguas canal, established in 1983, is an LWTP that created a thriving agricultural area through irrigating the Majes district in the Atacama Desert of Peru. Like other LWTP receiving basins, the project has attracted an influx of migrants who work on the farms. At the same time, the Majes LWTP is the district’s only source of water and has an agi…
Changes in adult well-being and economic inequalities: An exploratory observational longitudinal study (2002–2010) of micro-level trends among Tsimane’, a small-scale rural society of Indigenous Peopl…
Knowing what happens over time to the lifeways of people in contemporary small-scale non-industrial societies of the rural Global South matters because it helps assess changes in the quality of life of underrepresented groups. It has been hard to answer the question because longitudinal information is rarely collected in such settings. A longitudinal dataset of nine years (2002–2010) from a horticultural-foraging society of Indigenous People in t…
A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science
Economic convergence, intragenerational economic mobility, and inequality in a native Amazonian small-scale society of Indigenous People in Bolivia
Adult intragenerational rank mobility matters for quality of life. • There are no quantitative studies of intragenerational mobility in small-scale societies. • Mobility study of Tsimane’ Indigenous People in Bolivia starts to fill the gap. • Like developed economies, pockets of rank immobility appear at the top. • But there was also more rank mobility & the bottom (especially men) converged fast. Adult intragenerational mobility reflects society…
Social networks and the demand for credence agricultural technologies
Adult temporal mobility (2002-2010) in material wealth and physical health, self-perceived health, sociality, and use of addictive substances: Insights from an observational exploratory panel study am…
Changes in relative socioeconomic rank during adulthood (intragenerational mobility) are increasingly recognized as important determinants of health and other well-being indicators. Quantitative studies in high-income countries find that mobility in rank generally correlates with these outcomes, but the direction and mechanisms remain unclear. Evidence from small-scale societies is scarcer due to limited panel data. We examine the correlation bet…
The unexpected role of conditionality in shaping relational values: Evidence from a Bolivian incentive-based conservation program
As global change accelerates, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs have become increasingly important tools for addressing the interconnected challenges of land degradation, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and climate change. PES programs provide incentives to individuals or communities, conditional on people adopting sustainable natural resource management practices to support or increase ecosystem service provisioning. Although con…
Long panel studies of small-scale rural societies in the Global South: What is their value, why are they rare, and suggestions to make them happen
Many topics in the behavioral sciences and epidemiology require researchers to directly observe entities (e.g., individuals, households) over a long time to identify lasting effects. Long-term panel data collection is more common in high-income countries than in small-scale rural societies (SSRS) of low-income countries. SSRS are mobile, nature-dependent, linguistic minorities, and highly autarkic. Analyzing such data using a life-course perspect…
Economics (15 works) · Business (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Finance (6 works) · Political science (6 works)