2008
V. Reyes-García, V. Vadez,
T. Huanca, W. R. Leonard, T. McDade
Economic Development and Local Ecological Knowledge:
A Deadlock? Quantitative Research from a Native
Amazonian Society
V. Reyes-García, T. McDade; V. Vadez; T. Huanca;
W. R. Leonard; S. Tanner; R. Godoy
Non-market Returns to Traditional Human Capital:
Nutritional Status and Traditional Knowledge in a Native
Amazonian Society
Journal of Development Studies, 2008.
R. Godoy, V. Reyes-García, S. Tanner, W.R. Leonard, T. McDade, T. Huanca. 2007.
Can we trust an adult’s estimate of parental school attainment? Disentangling social desirability bias and random measurement error.
Field Methods.20:1:26-45.
R. Godoy, et al. 2008.
Assortative mating and offspring well-being. Theory and empirical findings from a native Amazonian society in Bolivia.
Evolution and Human Behavior. In press. No PDF file available.
R. Godoy, S. Tanner, V. Reyes-García, W. R. Leonard, T.W. McDade, M. Vento, J. Broesch, I. Fitzpatrick, P. Giovannini,
T. Huanca, N. Jha, and Bolivian TAPS study team.
The effect of rainfall during gestation and early childhood on adult height in a foraging and horticultural society of the Bolivian Amazon.
American Journal of Human Biology, 2007.
2007
V. Reyes-García, N. Marti, T. McDade,
S. Tanner, V. Vadez,
Concepts and Methods in Studies Measuring Individual Ethnobotanical Knowledge
Journal of Ethnobiology, 2007
Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Elizabeth Byron
How Well do Foragers Protect Food Consumption? Panel Evidence from a Native Amazonian Society in Bolivia
Human Ecology. Published online: 2 March 2007.
Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Tomás Huanca, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez, Susan Tanner.
Language skills and earnings: Evidence from a pre-industrial economy in the Bolivian Amazon.
Economics of Education Review. 26:3:349-360. 2007. No PDF available.
R. Godoy, V. Reyes-García, W. R. Leonard, T. Huanca, T. McDade, V. Vadez, S. Tanner.
Signaling by consumption in a native Amazonian society.
Evolution and Human Behavior. 2007.
K. Sharrock, C. Kuzawa, S, Tanner, W. R.Leonard, V. Reyes-García, V. Vadez, T. Huanca, T. McDade
Developmental changes in the relationship between leptin and adiposity
among Tsimane’ children and adolescents.
American Journal of Human Biology, 2007.
V. Reyes-García, V. Vadez, S. Tanner, T. McDade, T. Huanca,
W. R Leonard, and T.W. McDade
Ethnobotanical Skills and Clearance of Tropical Rain Forest for Agriculture:
A Case Study in the Lowlands of Bolivia
Ambio, 2007.
M. Brabec, R. Godoy, V. Reyes-García, and W. R Leonard
BMI, Income, and Social Capital in a Native Amazonian Society:
Interaction Between Relative and Community Variables
American journal of Human Biology, 2007.
T.W. McDade, V. Reyes-García, P. Blackinton, S. Tanner, T. Huanca, W.R. Leonard.
Maternal ethnobotanical knowledge is associated with multiple measures of child health in the Bolivian Amazon
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007.
R. Godoy, C. Seyfried, V. Reyes-García, T. Huanca,
W. R. Leonard, T. McDade, S. Tanner, and V. Vadez
Schooling’s contribution to social capital: study from a native Amazonian society in Bolivia
Comparative Education, 2007.
A. Patel, R. Godoy, C. Seyfried,
V. Reyes-García, T. Huanca, W. R. Leonard,
T. W. McDade, S. Tanner
On the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society
Economics and Human Biology, 2007.
V.Reyes-García, R. Godoy, T. Huanca,
W. R. Leonard, T. McDade, S. Tanner, V. Vadez
The origins of monetary income inequality: Patience, human capital, and division of labor
Evolution and Human Behavior. 2007.
See summary of article
featured in The Economist (February 10, 2007)
Godoy, R.A, V. Reyes-García, W.R. Leonard, T. Huanca, T. McDade, V. Vadez, S. Tanner.
The role of community and individuals in the formation of social capital.
Human Ecology. 2007.
2006
R. Godoy, D.S. Wilkie, V. Reyes-García,
W. R. Leonard, T. Huanca, T. McDade, V. Vadez, S. Tanner.
Human body-mass index as a useful proxy to assess the relation between
income and wildlife consumption in poor rural societies
Biodiversity and Conservation, 2006.
V. Reyes-García, V. Vadez, S. Tanner, T. McDade, T. Huanca and W. R Leonard.
Evaluating indices of traditional ecological knowledge: a methodological contribution.
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2006.
Godoy, R.A, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Tomás Huanca, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez, Susan Tanner, Ankur Patel.
Nutritional status and spousal empowerment among native Amazonians.
Social Science & Medicine. 63:1517-1530. 2006.
Godoy, R.A., Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Tomás Huanca, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez, Susan Tanner, Craig Seyfried Jr.
Does village inequality in modern income harm the psyche? Anger, fear, sadness, and alcohol consumption in a pre-industrial society.
Social Science & Medicine. 63:359-372. 2006.
V. Reyes-García, Ricardo Godoy, Vincent Vadez, Tomás Huanca, and William R. Leonard.
Individual and group incentives to invest in pro-social behavior: A study in the Bolivian Amazon.
Journal of Anthropological Research. 62:1:81-101. 2006.
Godoy, R.A., William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Goodman, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez.
Physical stature of adult Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century.
Economics and Human Biology. 4:184-205. 2006.
Godoy, R.A., Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez.
Why do mothers favor girls and fathers boys? A hypothesis and test of intra-household girl-boy investment disparity.
Human Nature. 2006.
Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca. Vincent Vadez, William R. Leonard, David Wilkie
Cultural, Practical, and economic value of wild plants
Economic Botany. 60(1), 2006. No PDF available.
2005
Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, William R. Leonard, Tomás Huanca.
Human capital, wealth, and nutrition in the Bolivian Amazon.
Economics and Human Biology. 3:1:139-162. 2005.
Foster, Zoe; Byron, Elizabeth; Reyes-García, Victoria; Huanca, Tomás; Vadez, Vincent; Apaza, Lillian; Pérez, Eddy; Tanner, Susan; Gutierrez, Yorema; Sandstrom, Bryan; Yakhedts, Anne; Osborn, C.; Godoy, Ricardo; Leonard, William R. 2005.
Physical growth and nutritional status of Tsimane’ Amerindian children of lowland Bolivia.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 126:343-351.
Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Vincent Vadez, Cynthia Valdés-Galicia, Dakun Zhao.
Why do subsistence-level people join the market economy? Testing hypotheses of push and pull determinants in Bolivian Amazonia.
Journal of Anthropological Research. 61:2:157-178. 2005.
Ricardo Godoy, Dean Karlan, Shanti Rabindran, and Tomás Huanca.
Do modern forms of human capital matter in primitive economies? Comparative evidence from Bolivia.
Economics of Education Review. 24:1:45-53. 2005.
Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Byron, Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, William R. Leonard, Lilian Apaza, Tomás Huanca, Eddy Pérez, David Wilkie.
Income inequality and adult nutritional status: Anthropometric evidence from a pre-industrial society in the Bolivian Amazon.
Social Science & Medicine 61:5:907-919 2005.
Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Vincent Vadez, Elizabeth Byron, Lilian apaza, William R. Leonard, Eddy Perez, David Wilkie.
Market Economy and the Loss of Folk Knowledge of Plant Uses: Estimates from the Tsimane’ of the Bolivian Amazon.
Current Anthropology 46,4:F 653-656, 2005
Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez.
Do smiles have a face value? Panel evidence from foragers and farmers in the Bolivian Amazon.
Journal of Economic Psychology. 26:4:469-490. 2005.
Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Byron, William R. Leonard, Vincent Vadez.
The effect of market economies on the well being of indigenous peoples and on their use of natural resources.
Annual Review of Anthropology. 34:122-138. 2005.
Reyes-García, V., V. Vadez, T. Huanca, W. Leonard, D. Wilkie.
Indigenous knowledge and consumption of wild plants: A comparative study of two Amerindian villages in the Bolivian Amazon.
Ethnobotany Research and Applications. 3: 201-207. 2005.
McDade TW, Leonard WR, Burhop J, Reyes-Garcia V, Vadez V, Huanca T, Godoy RA. 2005.
Predictors of C-reactive protein in Tsimane’ 2-15 year-olds in lowland Bolivia.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2005.
2004
Victoria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Byron, Vincent Vadez, Ricardo Godoy, Lilian Apaza, Eddy Pérez, William R. Leonard, David Wilkie.
Measuring culture as shared knowledge: Do data collection formats matter? Cultural knowledge of plant uses among Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivia.
Field Methods. 16:2:135-156. 2004.
Ricardo Godoy, Michael Gurven, Elizabeth Byron, Victoria Reyes-García, James Keough, Vincent Vadez, David Wilkie, William R. Leonard, Lilian Apaza, Tomás Huanca, Eddy Perez.
Do markets worsen economic inequalities? Kuznets in the bush.
Human Ecology. 32:3:339-364. 2004.
Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Byron, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Karishma Patel, Lilian Apaza, Eddy Pérez, Vincent Vadez, David Wilkie.
Patience in a foraging-horticultural society: A test of competing hypotheses.
Journal of Anthropological Research. 60:2:179-202. 2004.
Vincent Vadez, Victoria Reyes-García, Ricardo Godoy, Lilian Apaza, Elizabeth Byron, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Eddy Pérez, and David Wilkie.
Does integration to the market threaten agricultural diversity? Panel and cross-sectional data from a foraging-horticultural society in the Bolivian Amazon.
Human Ecology 32:5:635-646. 2004.
2003
Lilian Apaza, Ricardo Godoy, David Wilkie, Elizabeth Byron, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Eddy Pérez, Victoria Reyes-García, and Vincent Vadez.
Markets and the Use of Wild Animals for Traditional Medicine: a Case Study Among the Tsimane’ Amerindians of the Bolivian Rain Forest.
Journal of Ethnobiology. 23:1:47-64. 2003.
Victoria Reyes-García, Ricardo Godoy, Vincent Vadez, Lilian Apaza, Elizabeth Byron, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Eddy Pérez, and David Wilkie.
Ethnobotanical Knowledge Shared Widely Among Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivia. 2003.
Science 299: 1707. 2003.
Vincent Vadez, Victoria Reyes-García, Ricardo Godoy, Luke Williams, Lilian Apaza, Elizabeth Byron, Tomás Huanca, William Leonard, Eddy Pérez, and David Wilkie.
Validity of self-reports to measure deforestation: Evidence from the Bolivian lowlands.
Field Methods 15:3:289-304. 2003.
2002
Kris N. Kirby, Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Byron, Lilian Apaza, William Leonard, Eddy Pérez, Vincent Vadez, David Wilkie.
Correlates of delay-discount rates: Evidence from Tsimane’ Amerindians of the Bolivian rain forest.
Journal of Economic Psychology 23:291-316. 2002.
Lilian Apaza, David Wilkie, Elizabeth Byron, Tomás Huanca, William Leonard, Eddy Perez, Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Ricardo Godoy.
Meat prices influence the consumption of wildlife by the Tsimane’ Amerindians of Bolivia.
Oryx 36:4:382-388. 2002.
Godoy, R., H. Overman, J. Demmer, L. Apaza, E. Byron, T. Huanca, W. Leonard, E. Pérez, V. Reyes-García, V. Vadez, D. Wilkie, A. Cubas, K. McSweeney, N. Brokaw.
Local financial benefits of rain forests: Comparative evidence from Amerindian societies in Bolivia and Honduras.
Ecological Economics 40:397-409. 2002.
2001
David Wilkie and Ricardo Godoy.
Income and price elasticities of bushmeat demand in lowland Amerindian societies.
Conservation Biology 15:3:761-769. 2001.
Ricardo Godoy, Kris Kirby, and David Wilkie.
The role of tenure security, private time preference, and use of natural resources among lowland Bolivian Amerindians.
Ecological Economics 38:1:105-118. 2001.
2000
Ricardo Godoy and Marina Cárdenas.
Markets and the health of indigenous people: A methodological contribution. Human Organization 59:1:117-124. 2000.
1999
Godoy,R.A. and Jacobson,M.
Covariates of private time preference: A pilot study among the Tsimane’ Indians of the Bolivian rain forest. Evolution and Human Behavior 20, 249-256. 1999.
1998
Ricardo Godoy, David Wilkie, and Mark Jacobson.
Strategies of rain-forest dwellers against misfortunes: The Tsimane’ Indians of Bolivia.
Ethnology 37:1:55-69. With D. Wilkie and M. Jacobson. 1998.
Ricardo Godoy, Mark Jacobson, Joel De Castro, Vianca Aliaga, Julio Romero, and Allison Davis.
The role of tenure and private time preference in Neotropical deforestation.
Land Economics 74:2:162-171. 1998.
