Cooperation in an Uncertain World: For the Maasai of East Africa, Need-Based Transfers Outperform Account-Keeping in Volatile Environments

Using an agent-based model to study risk-pooling in herder dyads using rules derived from Maasai osotua (“umbilical cord”) relationships, Aktipis et al. (2011) found that osotua transfers led to more risk-pooling and better herd survival than both no transfers and transfers that occurred at frequenc...

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Autores principales: Aktipis, Athena, de Aguiar, Rolando, Flaherty, Anna, Iyer, Padmini, Sonkoi, Dennis, Cronk, Lee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27445430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-016-9823-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27445430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-016-9823-z

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