Jean Ensminger

California Institute of Technology — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

22h-index6.9kcitations46works2.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Culture, Economy, and Development Studies(13), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(11), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(11), Land Rights and Reforms(5), Corruption and Economic Development(4)

Publications46 total

Detecting Corruption: Evidence from a World Bank project in Kenya
World Development·2024· 2 cited
Replication Data for: "Detecting Corruption: Evidence from a World Bank Project in Kenya"
Harvard Dataverse·2023Open Access
Detecting Fraud in Development Aid
2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Detecting Fraud in Development Aid
SSRN Electronic Journal·2022Open Access
Corruption in community-driven development. A Kenyan case study with insights from Indonesia
2017· 6 citedOpen Access
The Political Economy of Religion : An Economic Anthropologist's Perspective
2016· 13 cited
Experimenting with Social Norms
2014· 11 cited
Theoretical foundations: The coevolution of social norms, intrinsic motivation, markets, and the institutions of complex societies.
2014· 22 cited
Experimenting with Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective
2014· 69 cited
Reply to van Hoorn: Converging lines of evidence
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2012· 8 citedOpen Access
Culture does account for variation in game behavior
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2012· 41 cited
Response—Evolution of Fairness
Science·2010· 10 cited
Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
Science·2010· 1.4k cited
Supporting Online Material for Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
2010· 1 cited
Homo æqualis: a cross-society experimental analysis of three bargaining games
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)·2009· 29 cited
Homo Æqualis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games
Documentos CEDE·2009
Homo Æqualis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games
SSRN Electronic Journal·2009· 7 citedOpen Access
More ‘altruistic’ punishment in larger societies
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2007· 228 citedOpen Access
Costly Punishment Across Human Societies
Science·2006· 1.8k cited
Models of decision-making and the coevolution of social preferences
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2005· 24 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Joseph Henrich(14), Abigail Barr(13), Richard McElreath(12), Michael Gurven(12), Frank W. Marlowe(12), David P. Tracer(12), Natalie Henrich(9), Alexander Bolyanatz(9), Juan-Camilo Cárdenas(9), Carolyn Lesorogol(9), Edwins Laban Moogi Gwako(8), John P. Ziker(8), Clark Barrett(7), Robert Boyd(5), Colin F. Camerer(5), Ernst Fehr(5), Herbert Gintis(5), Michael Alvard(5), Kim Hill(5), Francisco Gil-White(5)