"Markets, religion, community size and the evolution of fairness and punishment", Science, forthcoming (with J. Henrich, R. McElreath, J. Ensminger, C. Barrett, A. Bolyanataz, J. C. Cardenas, M. Gurven, L. Gwako, N. Henrich, C. Lesorogal, F. Marlow, D. Tracer and J. Ziker).

"Do the poor adapt to low income, minimal education and ill-health?" Journal of African Economies, online December 2009 (with D. Clark).

"Corruption in public service delivery: An experimental analysis", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 72(1), 225-239, October 2009 (with M. Lindelow and P. Serneels).

"The effects of externalities and framing on bribery in a petty corruption experiment", Experimental Economics, 12(4), 488-503, 2009 (with D. Serra).

"Reciprocity in the Workplace", Experimental Economics, 12(1), 99-112, 2009 (with P. Serneels).

"Risk Sharing, Commitment and Information: An experimental analysis", Journal of the European Economic Association, 6(6), 1151–85, 2008 (with G. Genicot).

"More 'altruistic' punishment in larger societies", Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 275, 587-90, 2008 (with F. Marlowe, J. C. Berbesque, C. Barrett, A. Bolyanataz, J. C. Cardenas, J. Ensminger, M. Gurven, L. Gwako, J. Henrich, C. Lesorogal, F. Marlow, R. McElreath, D. Tracer and J. Ziker).

"For public service or money: understanding geographical imbalances in the health workforce", Health Policy and Planning, 22(3), 128-38, 2007 (with M. Lindelow, J.G. Montalvo and P. Serneels).

"Costly Punishment across human societies", Science, 312(5781), 1767-70, 2006 (with J. Henrich, R. McElreath, J. Ensminger, C. Barrett, A. Bolyanataz, J. C. Cardenas, M. Gurven, L. Gwako, N. Henrich, C. Lesorogal, F. Marlow, D. Tracer and J. Ziker).

"A client-community assessment of the NGO sector in Uganda", Journal of Development Studies, 42(4), 611-39, 2006 (with M. Fafchamps).

"'Economic Man' in Cross-cultural Perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(6), 795-855, 2005 (with J.Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, H. Gintis, R. McElreath, M. Alvard, J. Ensminger, N. Smith-Henrich, K. Hill, F. Gil-White, M. Gurven, F. Marlowe, J. Q. Patton, N. and D. Tracer).

"The governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda", World Development , 33(4), 657-79, 2005 (with M. Fafchamps and T. Owens).

"Forging Effective New Communities: The evolution of civil society in Zimbabwean resettled villages", World Development, 32(10), 1753-66, 2004.

"Trust and Expected Trustworthiness: Experimental evidence from Zimbabwean villages", Economic Journal, 113(489), 614-30, 2003.

"Ethnic Fractionalization in an African Labour Market", Journal of Development Economics, 68(2), 355-79, 2002 (with A. Oduro).

"The Functional Diversity and Spillover Effects of Social Capital", Journal of African Economies, 11(1), 90-113, 2002.

"Social Capital and Technical Information Flows in the Ghanaian Manufacturing Sector", Oxford Economic Papers, 52, 539-59, 2000.



BOOK CHAPTERS

"Social networks and trust in cross-cultural economic experiments" in K. Cook, M. Levi, and R. Hardin (eds), Whom can we trust? New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009, (with J. Ensminger and J. Johnson).

"Kinship, familiarity, and trust: an experimental investigation", in J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, H. Gintis, E. Fehr and C. Camerer (eds), Foundations of Human Sociality, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.



RECENT WORKING PAPERS

"Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks", CSAE working paper WPS/2009-20, 2009 (with O. Attanasio, JC. Cardenas, G. Genicot and C. Meghir).

"Can we evaluate network brokerage initiatives using data that are byproducts of the network broking process?", CSAE working paper WPS/2009-18, 2009 (with S. Alvarez, K. Tehelen and B. Douthwaite).

"Bridging the gender divide: An experimental analysis of group formation in African villages", CSAE working paper WPS/2009-17, 2009 (with M. Dekker and M. Fafchamps).

"Homo Æqualis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games", CSAE working paper WPS/2009-02, 2009 (with C. Wallace, J. Henrich, J. Ensminger, R. McElreath, C. Barrett, A. Bolyanatz, J. C. Cardenas, M. Gurven, E. Gwako, C. Lesorogol, F. Marlowe, D. Tracer, and J. Ziker).

"Status and egalitarianism in traditional communities: An analysis of funeral attendance in six Zimbabwean villages", CSAE working paper WPS/2008-26, 2008 (with M. Stein).

"Corruption and culture: An experimental analysis", CSAE working paper WPS/2008-23, 2008 (with D.Serra).

"Risk sharing relations and enforcement mechanisms", CSAE Working Paper WPS/2008-14, 2008 (with M. Dekker and M. Fafchamps).




CURRENT PROJECTS

"The Evaluation of Network Brokerage Initiatives" with Boru Douthwaite, Sophie Alvarez and Katherine Tehelen of Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis, funded by Challenge Program on Water and Food, April 2009-.

"Accountability for Good Governance in Albania" with Truman Packard and Danila Serra, funded by The World Bank, May 2008-.

"An experimental analysis of network and group formation for collective action" with Marcel Fafchamps and Marleen Dekker, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Department for International Development, February 2008-.

"Randomized evaluation of policies to create local accountability under free primary education in Kenya and Uganda" with Germano Mwabu, Mwangi Kimenyi, Lawrence Bategeka, Frederick Mugisha, Tessa Bold, Justin Sandefur, David Johnson, Geeta Kingdon, Stefan Dercon, and Andrew Zeitlin, funded through Improving institutions for pro-poor growth by Department for International Development, 2007-.

"The Roots of Human Sociality" with Jean Ensminger (PI), Joseph Henrich (PI), Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jean Ensminger, Michael Gurven, Edwins Laban Moogi Gwako, Joseph Henrich, Jeffrey Johnson, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, Richard McElreath, John Q. Patton, David Tracer, funded by the National Science Foundation, 2002-.

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