Other people's data

African folk medicine. Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples

Other Peoples Money: An Experimental Study of the Impact of the Competition for Funds

This paper investigates the impact of the competition for funds in capital markets on the risk taking behavior of fund managers. In doing this we …nd what we call an “Other People’s Money”e¤ect, or a tendency of people to invest the funds of others in riskier assets than they would invest their own funds. We …nd that this excessive risk taking is not a result of poorly designed contracts since ...

Canada’s First Peoples

Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity*

Indigenous people number over 300 million. They are inhabitants of practically each main biome of the earth and especially of the least disturbed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. Based on an exhaustive review of recently published data, this chapter stresses the strategic importance of indigenous peoples in the maintenance and conservation of world's biodiversity. Four main link...

Genes, peoples and languages.

The genetic history of a group of populations is usually analyzed by reconstructing a tree of their origins. Reliability of the reconstruction depends on the validity of the hypothesis that genetic differentiation of the populations is mostly due to population fissions followed by independent evolution. If necessary, adjustment for major population admixtures can be made. Dating the fissions re...