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Overview

Ricardo Godoy is affiliated with Brandeis University in the United States. Their research spans interdisciplinary fields including General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Nutrition and Dietetics, as well as Global and Planetary Change.

Their work addresses a variety of main topics such as Economic and Environmental Valuation, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ricardo Godoy include:

  • Jonathan Bauchet
  • Eduardo A. Undurraga
  • Claudia Radel
  • William R. Leonard
  • Ariela Zycherman

Ricardo Godoy has published in several notable venues. These publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • World Development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Ricardo Godoy include:

  • "Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries" (2024, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "The practice of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the Tropical Andes: Evidence from program administrators" (2020, Ecosystem Services)
  • "Does State Tightness-Looseness Predict Behavior and Attitudes Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA?" (2022, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology)
  • "The effect of gender targeting of food transfers on child nutritional status: experimental evidence from the Bolivian amazon" (2021, Journal of Development Effectiveness)

Best Publications

  • Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception

    Josh H. McDermott;Alan F. Schultz;Eduardo A. Undurraga;Eduardo A. Undurraga;Ricardo A. Godoy

  • Role of prices and wealth in consumer demand for bushmeat in Gabon, central Africa

    David S Wilkie;Malcolm Starkey;Katharine Abernethy;Ernestine Nsame Effa

  • THE EFFECT OF MARKET ECONOMIES ON THE WELL-BEING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ON THEIR USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES

    Ricardo Godoy;Victoria Reyes-García;Elizabeth Byron;William R. Leonard

  • Correlates of delay-discount rates: Evidence from Tsimane' Amerindians of the Bolivian rain forest

    Kris N Kirby;Ricardo Godoy;Victoria Reyes-Garcı́a;Elizabeth Byron

  • Valuation of consumption and sale of forest goods from a Central American rain forest

    Ricardo Godoy;David Wilkie;Han Overman;Adoni Cubas

  • Household determinants of deforestation by amerindians in honduras

    Ricardo Godoy;Kathleen O'neill;Stephen Groff;Peter Kostishack

  • Income and price elasticities of bushmeat demand in lowland Amerindian societies

    David S. Wilkie;Ricardo A. Godoy

  • Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalayas Compared [and Comments and Reply]

    David Guillet;Ricardo A. Godoy;Christian E. Guksch;Jiro Kawakita

  • Physical growth and nutritional status of Tsimane' Amerindian children of lowland Bolivia.

    Z. Foster;E. Byron;V. Reyes-García;T. Huanca

  • Local financial benefits of rain forests. Comparative evidence from Amerindian societies in Bolivia and Honduras

    R Godoy;H Overman;J Demmer;L Apaza

  • Why People Eat Bushmeat: Results From Two-Choice, Taste Tests in Gabon, Central Africa

    Michelle Schenck;Ernestine Nsame Effa;Malcolm Starkey;David Wilkie

  • MINING: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

    Ricardo Godoy

  • Guidelines for the Economic Valuation of Nontimber Tropical-Forest Products

    Ricardo Godoy;Ruben Lubowski

  • A method for the economic valuation of non-timber tropical forest products

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  • The effect of wealth and real income on wildlife consumption among native Amazonians in Bolivia: estimates of annual trends with longitudinal household data (2002–2006)

    R. Godoy;E. A. Undurraga;D. Wilkie;V. Reyes-García;V. Reyes-García

  • Ethnobotanical knowledge shared widely among Tsimane' Amerindians, Bolivia.

    V. Reyes-Garcia;R. Godoy;V. Vadez;L. Apaza

  • Does Integration to the Market Threaten Agricultural Diversity? Panel and Cross-Sectional Data From a Horticultural-Foraging Society in the Bolivian Amazon

    Vincent Vadez;Victoria Reyes-García;Ricardo A. Godoy;V. Lilian Apaza

  • Meat prices influence the consumption of wildlife by the Tsimane' Amerindians of Bolivia

    Lilian Apaza;David Wilkie;Elizabeth Byron;Tomás Huanca

  • First Impressions From Faces Among U.S. and Culturally Isolated Tsimane’ People in the Bolivian Rainforest:

    Leslie A. Zebrowitz;Ruoxue Wang;P. Matthew Bronstad;Dan Eisenberg

  • Influence of helminth infections on childhood nutritional status in lowland Bolivia.

    S. Tanner;William Leonard;Thomas McDade;V. Reyes-Garcia;V. Reyes-Garcia

  • Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?

    Joshua Angrist;Joshua Angrist;Aimee Chin;Aimee Chin;Ricardo Godoy

  • Predictors of C-reactive protein in Tsimane' 2 to 15 year-olds in lowland Bolivia

    T.W. McDade;W.R. Leonard;J. Burhop;V. Reyes-García

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
William R. Leonard
William R. Leonard Northwestern University
Tomás Huanca
Tomás Huanca Brandeis University
Vincent Vadez
Vincent Vadez Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Daniel Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg University of California, Los Angeles
Leslie A. Zebrowitz
Leslie A. Zebrowitz Brandeis University
Elena L. Grigorenko
Elena L. Grigorenko University of Houston
Michael Gurven
Michael Gurven University of California, Santa Barbara
David N. Kennedy
David N. Kennedy University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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