Are Peasants Risk-Averse Decision Makers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2214371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Henrich (0000-0002-5012-0065, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Richard Mcelreath (0000-0002-0387-5377, Max Planck Institute for Human Development) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 172-181 |
| Publication date | 2002-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/338291 |
| OpenAlex | W2007961631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
| References cited | 17 |
Business · Economics · Microeconomics · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
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A Cultural Species and its Cognitive Phenotypes
Social capital is associated with both risk-taking and risk-avoidance in rural Bangladesh
Cultural Conservatism
Modernisation and Time Preferences in Tanzania
Evaluating Livestock Culling Practices Using Population Projection Models in Neolithic Dalmatia
Cultural conservatism
Capitalist Democracy Among Mongolian Herders
Human behavioral ecology and niche construction
Risk‐Seeking Peasants, Excessive Artisans
Environmental constraints and sigmoid utility
Subsistence, risk-taking, and reciprocity among the Tanchangya in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
How do decision makers ́ ethnicity and religion influence the use of forests? Evidence from Chile
How Pre-modern State Rulers Used Marriage to Reduce the Risk of Losing at War
Risky Business? Rural Entrepreneurship in Subsistence Markets
Adaptation to Climate Change in Rainfed Agriculture in the Global South
Emotions and financial risk‐taking in the lab
National specialization policy versus farmers’ priorities
Expanding the Role of Gender Essentialism in the Single-Sex Education Debate
Risk attitudes and economic well-being in Latin America
Determinants of crop choice decisions under risk
The expansion of smallholder rubber farming in Xishuangbanna, China
Buying into capitalism
Gender differences in social risk taking
An economic anatomy of culture
Money is Easy in Paracale
Beyond Mean and Variance
Women’s Representation, Accountability and Corruption in Democracies
Fitness-Maximizers Employ Pessimistic Probability Weighting for Decisions Under Risk
Behavioural Development Economics
Applying Behavioral Ecology and Behavioral Economics to Conservation and Development Planning
Overconfidence and Risk Taking in the Field
Farmer knowledge across the commodification spectrum
Who Helps and Why
Do Risk and Time Experimental Choices Represent Individual Strategies for Coping with Poverty or Conformity to Social Norms
Experiments and Ethnography
On Risk-Prone Peasants
Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics
Archaeological markers of agricultural risk management
Transforming traditional agriculture
Growth in a Traditional Society
Recent developments in modeling preferences
Attitudes Toward Risk
Rationalising mixed cropping under indigenous conditions
Risk aversion and credit constraints in farmers' decision‐making
The theory of the optimising peasant 1
Some management objectives of the peasant farmer
The evolution of prestige
Risk-senstive adaptive tactics
Rice and risk
Cognitive Strategies and Adoption Decisions
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
| Unique citing works | 48 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |