@article {674091,
	title = {Tabulated Nonsense? Testing the Validity of the Ethnographic Atlas},
	journal = {Economic Letters},
	volume = {204},
	year = {2021},
	month = {2021},
	pages = {109880},
	abstract = {The\&nbsp;Ethnographic Atlas\&nbsp;(Murdock, 1967), an anthropological database, is widely used across the social sciences. The\&nbsp;Atlas\&nbsp;is a quantified and discretely categorized collection of information gleaned from ethnographies covering more than 1200 pre-industrial societies. While being popular in many fields, it has been subject to skepticism within cultural anthropology. We assess the\&nbsp;Atlas{\textquoteright}s\&nbsp;validity by comparing it with representative data from descendants of the portrayed societies. We document positive associations between the historical measures collected by ethnographers and self-reported data from 790,000 individuals across 43 countries.},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176521001579},
	author = {Bahrami-Rad, D and Becker, A. and Henrich, J}
}
