Rahul Mondal

The paper develops a nonlinear feedback model to assess selection pressures on kin effects in human populations, finding negative sensitivity of fitness metrics to kin presence on child mortality.

The paper examines how inflation variability and persistence affect demographic buffering in humans across 32 countries, finding increased stochastic sensitivity but no adverse effects on buffering capacity.

The paper tests the social buffering hypothesis across 66 animal species, finding social species have lower demographic sensitivity to environmental variability, especially in unpredictable climates.

This study shows that lower inflation environments lead to higher stochastic population growth rates, driven by better survival and fertility at older ages and later reproductive years.