Market Integration and Fairness: Evidence from Ultimatum, Dictator, and Public Goods Experiments in East Africa

Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ensminger, Jean ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictator game; Fairness; Kenya; Market integration; Orma; Pastoral nomadic communities; Public goods game; Reputation; Trade income; Ultimatum game; Wage labour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920442824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199262055.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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