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dataset from an irrigation project in Sri Lanka under a natural experimental situation where a significant portion of … distance embedded by irrigation systems explain variations in trust across irrigation communities, suggesting that the level of … driven largely by each individual’s years of access to irrigation and is not necessarily affected by social distance or …
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In a canonical model of collective action, individual contribution to collective action is negatively correlated with group size. Empirical evidence on the group size effect has been mixed, partly due to heterogeneities in group activities. In this paper, we first construct a simple general...
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This study combines a livelihoods approach with a regression approach to quantify the effectiveness of irrigation … Lanka, and a natural experimental setting, we estimate from a two stage income regression model to show that irrigation … not linked to irrigation infrastructure may contribute to changes in livelihood portfolios. In addition, we highlight …
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This paper investigates the effect of social capital between irrigation canal head-enders and tail-enders on their … consensus has not been reached on its effect among heterogeneous players. In irrigation management, the water allocation problem … the fact that the incentive structure of irrigation water allocation for head-enders closely resembles that in the …
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the introduction of land-saving technologies, such as irrigation development. A lesson learnt from the Chokwe Irrigation …
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people with and without disabilities in Nepal, using the nationally representative dataset Nepal Living Standard Survey (NLSS …
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