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Jean Ensminger

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15

Publications

6.1K

Citations

13

H-Index

1987

Active since

Affiliations

California Institute of Technology(Current)

University of California, Davis

University of Oxford

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Santa Barbara

Jean Ensminger is an author at California Institute of Technology specializing in social sciences, economics, and business.

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Social SciencesBusinessEconomicsSociologyLawSocial BehaviorSocial InfluencePolitical EconomyAfrican DevelopmentEconomic Development

Publications per year

1987–2016

15

Publications

15

“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2005 · 1.9K citations · Full text

Costly Punishment Across Human Societies

Joseph Henrich, Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr et al. · Science · 2006 · 1.8K citations

Evolutionary Game Theory, Behavioral Decision Making, Law +17

Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment

Joseph Henrich, Jean Ensminger, Richard McElreath et al. · Science · 2010 · 1.4K citations

Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society.

Tony Barnett, Yuka Kodama, Jean Ensminger · The Economic Journal · 1994 · 338 citations

Economic Development, African Diaspora, Economic History +17

More ‘altruistic’ punishment in larger societies

Frank W. Marlowe, J. Colette Berbesque, Abigail Barr et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2007 · 228 citations · Full text

Law, Criminal Law, Social Influence +16

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