2008
Short and long-run effects of household income on household forest clearance among native Amazonians: Panel evidence (2002-2006) from the Tsimane’, Bolivia Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca, Vincent Vadez, David Wilkie, and TAPS Bolivia Study Team

Effects of future weather on foraging and farming productivity: Implications for farming's diffusion Ricardo Godoy, Ori Heffetz, Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Sanjay Kumar, Javed Iqbal, David Wilkie, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca, and TAPS Bolivia Study Team

Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical competence: An empirical analysis from a society of foragers and farmers Victoria Reyes-García, James Broesch, Soroush Parsa, Laura Calvet, Nuria Fuentes, Thomas W. McDade, Susan Tanner, Ricardo Godoy, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Maria Ruth Martínez, and TAPS Bolivian study team

Social rank and adult male nutritional status: Evidence of the social gradient of health from a foraging-farming society TAPS Bolivian Study Team

Ethnobotanical knowledge and crop diversity in swidden fields: A study in a native Amazonian society Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Neus Martí, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner

The pay-offs to sociability: Do solitary and social leisure relate to happiness? Victoria Reyes-García,, Ricardo A. Godoy, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, María Ruth Martínez-Rodríguez, TAPS Bolivian Study Team

Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS): The first five years (2002-2006) of data available to the public in 2008 William R. Leonard and Ricardo Godoy

2007
Maintenance vs. growth: Investigating the costs of immune activation among children in lowland Bolivia T. W. McDade, V. Reyes-García, S. Tanner, T. Huanca, W. R. Leonard.

Climate and Child Height among Native Amazonians R. Godoy, E. Goodman, V. Reyes-García, D. Eisenberg, W. R. Leonard, T. Huanca, T. W. McDade, S. Tanner, TAPS Bolivian Research Team

Assortative mating and offspring well-being: Theory and empirical findings from a native Amazonia R. Godoy, D. Eisenberg, V. Reyes-García, T. Huanca, W. R. Leonard, T. W. McDade, S. Tanner, TAPS Bolivian Research Team

Anthropometric Indicators of Children and Young Adults and Rainfall in a Native R. Godoy, D. Eisenberg, V. Reyes-García, T. Huanca, W.R. Leonard, T.W. McDade, S. Tanner, M. Vento, and TAPS Bolivian Study Team

Can We Trust an Adult‘s Estimate of Parental School Attainment? Ricardo Godoy, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Victoria Reyes-García, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca,

Parental preference, bargaining power, and child nutritional status: Evidence from the Bolivian Amazon Ankur M. Patel, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Thomas McDade, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez

Rainfall amount and variability during gestation and early childhood and adult height in a foraging and horticultural society of the Bolivian Amazon Ricardo Godoy, Susan Tanner, Ian C. Fitzpatrick, Peter Giovannini, Melanie Vento, Naveen Jha, William R. Leonard

2006
Does modernization erode the secular trend of indigenous knowledge? Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, James Broesch, Ian C. Fitzpatrick, Peter Giovannini, Maria Ruth Martínez Rodríguez, Naveen Jha, Tomás Huanca

Ethnobotanical skills and clearance of tropical rainforest for agriculture. Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner

Economic development and local ecological knowledge: a deadlock? Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade

On the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society Ankur M. Patel, Ricardo A. Godoy, Craig Seyfried, Victoria Reyes-García. TAPS-WP-26-2006

The pay-offs to sociability: Solitary and social leisure and happiness Victoria Reyes-García, Ricardo Godoy, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, James Broesch, Ian Fitzpatrick, Drew Gerkey, Peter Giovannini,. TAPS-WP-25-2006

Ethnobotanical knowledge correlates with crop diversity: Evidence from a native Amazonian society Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Neus Marí, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner. TAPS-WP-24-2006

How poor are people in autarky? On the measure of income in autarky and the economic (un)importance of social capital Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, Craig Seyfried Jr. TAPS-WP-23-2006

Signaling by consumption: Income shocks and intra-household expenditure allocations in autarky Ricardo Godoy, Craig Seyfried Jr., Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade. TAPS-WP-22-Jan-2006

Measuring what people know about the environment: A review of quantitative studies Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Susan Tanner, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade. TAPS-WP-21-Jan-2006

2005
The effect of market economies on the well-being of indigenous peoples and on their use of natural resources. Annual Review of Anthropology. Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Byron, William R. Leonard, Vincent Vadez. 2005. In press. TAPS-WP-1-Nov-2005.

Why do mothers favor girls and fathers boys? A hypothesis and test of intra-household girl-boy investment disparity. Human Nature. Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Thomas McDade Susan Tanner, William R. Leonard Tomás Huanca, Vincent Vadez, Karishma Patel. 2005. In press. TAPS-WP-2-Nov-2005.

Physical stature of adult Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century. Economics and Human Biology. Ricardo Godoy, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Goodman, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez. 2005. In press. TAPS-WP-3-Nov-2005.

Human body-mass index (kg/mt2) is a useful proxy to assess the effect of income on wildlife consumption in low-income rural societies. Biodiversity and Conservation. Ricardo Godoy, David Wilkie, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Tomás Huanca, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez, Susan Tanner. 2005. In press. TAPS-WP-4-Nov-2005.

How well do people in autarky protect food consumption? Panel evidence from foragers and farmers in the Bolivian Amazon. Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, William R. Leonard, Elizabeth Byron. 2005. TAPS-WP-5-Nov-2005.

Non-market returns to traditional and modern human capital: Nutritional status in a native Amazonian society. Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Ricardo Godoy, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner. 2005. TAPS-WP-6-Nov-2005.

Language skills and earnings: Evidence from a pre-industrial economy in the Bolivian Amazon. Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez. 2005. TAPS-WP-7-Nov-2005.

Does village inequality in modern income harm the psyche? Anger, fear, sadness, and alcohol in a pre-industrial economy. Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Thomas McDade, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez. 2005. TAPS-WP-8-Nov-2005.

Spousal empowerment and nutritional status among native Amazonians. Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Ankur Patel, Tomás Huanca, Mariana Caram, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez, Cynthia Valdés-Galicia. 2005. TAPS-WP-9-Nov-2005.

Methods for collecting panel data: What can cultural anthropology learn from other disciplines? Gravlee, Lance, David Kennedy, Ricardo Godoy, William R. Leonard. 2005. TAPS-WP-10-Nov-2005.

BMI, income, and social capital in a pre-industrial society of the Bolivian Amazon: Interaction between relative and community effects. Marek Brabec, Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard. 2005. TAPS-WP-11-Nov-2005.

The role of community and individuals in the formation of social capital. Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez. 2005. TAPS-WP-12-Nov-2005.

Melancholy and weight change: Panel evidence from a pre-industrial economy in the Bolivian Amazon. Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Goodman. Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez. 2005. TAPS-WP-13-Nov-2005.

Income inequality and deforestation: Evidence from a small-scale, pre-industrial society in the Bolivian Amazon. Oscar Zapata-Ríos, Vincent Vadez, Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard. 2005. TAPS-WP-14-Nov-2005.

Interviewer bias: Lessons from panel and cross-sectional surveys from a native Amazonian society. Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Byron, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard. 2005. TAPS-WP-15-Nov-2005.

Almost ten years since decentralization laws in Bolivia: Status quo or improvement for the lowland indigenous people? Evidence from the Tsimane’ Amerindians of the Beni. Vincent Vadez and Victoria Reyes-García. TAPS-WP-16-Nov-2005.

Schooling’s contribution to social capital: An instrumental-variable approach with data from a native Amazonian society. Ricardo Godoy, Craig Seyfried Jr., Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vades. TAPS-WP-17-Nov-2005. In preparation for special edition of Comparative Education on ‘Western Psychological and Educational Theory in Diverse Contexts’, edited by Julian Elliott and Elena Grigorenko.

Cash cropping, farm technologies, and deforestation: What are the connections? A model with empirical data from the Bolivian Amazon. Vincent Vadez, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard. TAPS-WP-18-Dec-2005.

Individual and group incentives to invest in pro-social behavior: An empirical study in the Bolivian Amazon. Journal of Anthropological Research. V. Reyes-García, Ricardo Godoy, Vincent Vadez, Tomás Huanca, and William R. Leonard. 2005. TAPS-WP-19-Dec-2005. In press.

Indigenous knowledge and consumption of wild plants: A comparative study of two Tsimane’ villages in the Bolivian Amazon. Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, Tomás Huanca, William Leonard, David Wilkie. TAPS-WP-20-Dec-2005.



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