Do risk and time experimental choices represent individual strategies for coping with poverty or conformity to social norms?, Evidence from Rural Southwestern Madagascar

Current Anthropology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-180

  Tucker, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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