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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...
Autores principales: | Aktipis, Athena, de Aguiar, Rolando, Flaherty, Anna, Iyer, Padmini, Sonkoi, Dennis, Cronk, Lee |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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