Project Title: Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico
Mauricio Fernández Duque, Dartmouth College
Mauricio Fernández Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. He is a behavioral economist who uses economic theory and empirics to study topics in the intersection of economics, psychology, political science, sociology and anthropology. Topics he is interested in include the diffusion of social norms, how social identity affects behavior, the solution of collective action problems, child development in rural communities in Mexico, consumption of memory and the impact of indigenous cultural norms on political and economic outcomes. Born in Mexico City, he received a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard in 2015, and a BA in economics and political science from ITAM in 2007.
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