Academic research in progress centers on:
(a) the effects (or social returns) of parental ethno-ecological knowledge of parasites and modern human capital (e.g., schooling and academic skills) in shaping health outcomes of children and parents,
(b) the use of an experimental research design to introduce exogenous changes in the level of income and in village income distribution to assess the effect of the changes on village social capital and individual health,
(c) the use of an experimental research design to estimate the effects of participatory community mapping on encroachment by outsiders,
(d) the effects of cultural attachment to traditional values in shaping psychological, socioeconomic, and health indicators of well-being,
(e) the influence of children’s ethnobotanical knowledge in shaping their own health outcomes,
(f) the development of ethnobotanical knowledge over the life cycle,
(g) the role of short-run weather forecasts based on local knowledge and personal experience in shaping the adoption and spread of farming that took place during the late Pleistocene and Holocene,
(h) cultural visibility of expenditures, consumption, and behaviors, and
(i) assessing whether people from different cultures can agree on traits (e.g., kindness, intelligence, health) based on faces of people from their own and different cultures, and whether such judgments bear a relation with objective indicators of the person whose face is judged.
Social returns
Experimental study
Nutrition project
Social returns
Experimental study
Nutrition project
