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Overcoming the Common Pool Problem Through Voluntary Cooperation : The Rise and Fall of a Fishery Cooperative
Deacon, Robert - 2010
overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138469
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The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2016
Does a person's historical lineage influence his or her current economic status? Motivated by a large literature in social sciences stressing the effect of an early transition to agriculture on current economic performance at the level of countries, we examine the relative contemporary status of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000530
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Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics : On the Roles of Risk and Ability
Santos, Paulo - 2016
This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely in adverse states of nature. In favorable states, expected herd grow is quasi-linear and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983431
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Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin; Nunn, Nathan - 2022
pastoralists – in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship with sedentary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089908
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The Effects of Decentralized and Video-Based Extension on the Adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management – Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Hörner, Denise - 2020
The slow adoption of new agricultural technologies is an important factor in explaining persistent productivity deficits among smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Farmers delay in particular the uptake of technology packages. Since knowledge constraints are an important barrier to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840008
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The Cost of Property Rights : Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918
Maurer, Noel - 2010
We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758433
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The Problem of the Commons : Still Unsettled after 100 Years
Stavins, Robert N. - 2010
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when … the commons. Within the realm of natural resources, there are special challenges associated with renewable resources …. Critical commons problems are also associated with environmental quality. A key contribution of economics has been the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137614
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The Value of Secure Property Rights : Evidence from Global Fisheries
Grainger, Corbett A. - 2011
Property rights are commonly touted as a solution to common pool resource problems. But in practice the security of these property rights varies substantially owing to differences in design. In fisheries, the design of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) varies widely; the consequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125578
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Games and Resources
Harstad, Bård - 2012
This article presents a sequence of simple and related models to analyze the strategic use of natural resources. Game theory is the natural tool for such an analysis, whether the resource is private or publicly owned, whether it is renewable or exhaustible, whether the game is static or dynamic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098144
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How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action : Evidence from California's Groundwater
Ayres, Andrew - 2017
Collective action to remedy the losses of open access to common-pool resources often is late and incomplete, extending rent dissipation. Examples include persistent over-exploitation of oil fields and ocean fisheries, despite general agreement that production constraints are needed. Transaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956925