Nice coincidence that a big study of cooperation decline in microfinance in Sierra Leone has appeared in Nature just after our meta-analysis. Hints that partner choice, reciprocity and punishment were involved, but sadly no explicit focus on non-proximate explanations
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cooperation in group lending declines over time due to shifting behavioural motivations, briefly rebounds after loan restarts, then declines faster again, revealing systematic deviations from rational...
Final version of this paper is now published. Find out what the microfinance literature can tell us about the evolution of human cooperation
Alex Mesoudi
New paper out in Evolutionary Human Sciences (unformatted early access):
Testing Evolutionary Theories of Human Cooperation via Meta-Analysis of Microfinance Repayment
with Dougie Foster, Shakti Lamba & @erikpostma.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Testing Evolutionary Theories of Human Cooperation via Meta-Analysis of Microfinance Repayment
