Ricardo A Godoy

Biographic Data

ID3710299
NAMERicardo A Godoy
GIVEN NAMESRicardo A
FAMILY NAMEGodoy
SIGNATUREGODOY R A
AFFILIATIONSHeller School for Social Policy and Management Brandeis University Waltham Massachusetts 02453
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS194
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8

  • Preferences for consonance are evident in Indigenous Amazonians with higher, but not lower, levels of global integration

    Open AccessMervyl J Mcpherson, Malinda J McPherson-McNato et al.ARTICLECognition2026

    It is unclear how elementary musical preferences are shaped by experience, in part due to the difficulty of measuring the presumptively relevant aspects of human experience. Previous work with an indigenous small-scale society in the Bolivian Amazon - Tsimane' - has failed to find evidence of the preference for canonically consonant to dissonant music intervals that is widespread in Western listeners. Leveraging changing conditions in the Amazon,…

  • Commonfield Agriculture

    Bruce M S Campbell, Bruce Campbell et al.CHAPTERField Systems and Farming Systems…2023

    Commonfield agriculture is one of the most distinctive and intriguing manifestations of common-property resource management. The precise nature of these arrangements depended upon environmental, technological, demographic, and sociopolitical circumstances, which is why England, for example, contained so many different types of commonfield systems. Environmentally, too, there was a vast difference in the circumstances under which these two commonf…

  • Empresarios, minas y campesinos

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A GodoyARTICLEAllpanchis2020

    The most distinguished anthropological studies on risk have a common characteristic: peasant agriculture. Anthropologists delight in pointing to the "institutional context" (Wolf 1969; XV) and the farming techniques used by peasants to reduce the chances of crop failure and market uncertainties. A partial list of such techniques includes: inter-row planting, plot dispersal, and planting of different species or varieties of the same crop. Social m…

  • Market Engagement and Indigenous People

    Jonathan Bauchet, Eduardo A Undurraga et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2020Cited by: 1References: 28

    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…

  • Child stunting is associated with weaker human capital among native Amazonians

    Open AccessEduardo A Undurraga, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2018

    OBJECTIVES: We assessed associations between child stunting, recovery, and faltering with schooling and human capital skills in a native Amazonian society of horticulturalists-foragers (Tsimane'). METHODS: We used cross-sectional data (2008) from 1262 children aged 6 to 16 years in 53 villages to assess contemporaneous associations between three height categories: stunted (height-for-age Z score, HAZ -1), and three categories of human capital: co…

  • Birth seasons and heights among girls and boys below 12 years of age

    Open AccessMarek Brabec, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2018

    The results suggest that redressing stunting will require attention to conditions in utero, infancy and late childhood

  • Conditional cash transfers for primary education

    Open AccessJonathan Bauchet, Eduardo A Undurraga et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 5References: 11

    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). …

  • Individual health and the visibility of village economic inequality

    Open AccessEduardo A Undurraga, Veronica Nica et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2016

  • Catch-up growth and growth deficits

    Open AccessRebecca Zhang, Eduardo A Undurraga et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2016

    The prevalence of growth faltering among the Tsimane' has declined, but hurdles still substantially lock children into height categories

  • The effects of community income inequality on health

    Open AccessEduardo A Undurraga, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Cited by: 5References: 29

  • Savings at the Periphery of Markets

    Eduardo A Undurraga, A Zycherman et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2014

    We used survey and ethnographic data to study savings in a highly autarkic society of native Amazonians in Bolivia (Tsimane’). We equated savings with the amount of maize and rice in storage, area planted with plantains and manioc, and number of edible domesticated animals owned by a household or an adult. We found no large inter-annual change in savings possibly due to low income, impulsivity and a bundle of institutions and norms, such as borro…

  • Diurnal cortisol rhythms and child growth

    Open AccessColleen Nyberg, Colleen H Nyberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2012

    OBJECTIVE: Although psychosocial stress has also been implicated as a contributor to growth failure by imposing energetic constraints during development, the direct physiological pathways by which these life history trade-offs are imposed are not well understood. This study explores associations between diurnal cortisol rhythms and differential patterns of linear child growth among the Tsimane, a horticulturalist and foraging society in the Boliv…

  • Sibling composition and children's anthropometric indicators of nutritional status

    Open AccessOyunbileg Magvanjav, Eduardo A Undurraga et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2012

    Older brothers and younger sisters were negatively associated with arm measures in girls. This finding may help improve policy interventions that aim to address children's nutritional health and long-term well-being

  • The Pay-Offs to Sociability

    Open AccessTaps Bolivian Study Team, Reyes‐garcía et al.ARTICLEHuman Nature2009Cited by: 6References: 43

  • On the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society

    Open AccessAnkur M Patel, R Godoy et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2006

  • Adult male height in an American colony

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2006

  • Does village inequality in modern income harm the psyche? Anger, fear, sadness, and alcohol consumption in a pre-industrial society

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2006Cited by: 15References: 43

  • Nutritional status and spousal empowerment among native Amazonians

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2006Cited by: 10References: 27

  • Physical stature of adult Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2005Cited by: 22References: 15

  • Do Markets Worsen Economic Inequalities? Kuznets in the Bush

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2004Cited by: 16References: 21

  • Brief Communication

    Open AccessVadez, Vincent Vadez et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2004Cited by: 37References: 10

  • The Life Cycle, Ecological, and Economic Determinants of Spousal Leisure Sharing

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A GodoyARTICLEHuman Ecology2002Cited by: 2References: 18

  • Mining and Agriculture in Highland Bolivia

    Olivia Harris, R Godoy et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1995

  • Effects of Government Policies on Smallholder Palm Cultivation

    Elizabeth B Safran, R Godoy et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization1993

    Rattan is a non-timber forest product with good market potential that has been cultivated sustainably by smallholders for over a century. The government of Indonesia imposed a ban on the export of raw and semi-processed rattan in 1988. To determine whether and how the ban has affected smallholders, we interviewed farmers in two rattan-growing regions in Kalimantan. Since the ban, prices and rural incomes have dropped, cultivation has slowed/stopp…

  • The economic value and sustainable harvest of plants and animals from the tropical forest

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany1993Cited by: 30References: 9