Research
Publications
“Tabulated nonsense? Testing the validity of the Ethnographic Atlas and the persistence of culture" (with Anke Becker and Joseph Henrich), Economics Letters, forthcoming.
See Database of Global Cultural Evolution here.
“An Experimental Study of Kin and Ethnic Favoritism” (with Mahsa Akbari, Erik Kimbrough, Pedro Romero, and Sadegh Alhosseini), Economic Inquiry, 58 (4), October 2020.
"The Church, Intensive Kinship and Global Psychological Variation" (with Jonathan Beauchamp, Jonathan Schulz, and Joseph Henrich), Science, 366, eaau5141, November 2019.
Media coverage: The Economist, Washington Post, Newsweek, Telegraph, Cosmos, National Post, Scientific American, Science Magazine, Inverse, National Public Radio, United Press International, French: Le Devoir, German: Die Presse, Science ORF, Wiener Zeitung, Frankfurter Allegemeine, Wissenschaft, Deutschlandfunk Nova, Spanish: La Vanguardia
“Kinship, Fractionalization and Corruption” (with Mahsa Akbari, and Erik Kimbrough), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 166, October 2019.
SSHRC Storytellers Award Winner. See video here.
Working papers
“Keeping It in the Family: Female Inheritance, Inmarriage and the Status of Women” , Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Development Economics.
Media Coverage: VoxDev
“Kinship systems and economic development" (with Jonathan Beauchamp, Joseph Henrich, and Jonathan Schulz)
“Kinship, favoritism, and impersonal cooperation: a cross cultural experiment" (with Erik Kimbrough, and Joseph Henrich)