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administered effort is concerned with the importance of the analytical category of gender for the rules structuring the actions of … the groups. Gender is perceived as an institution, constructing regulations of access and conduct for its members, shaping … which effect? Since action resources are very much determined by the existing construction of gender, the question is how …
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"Floodplain wetlands are the major common pool natural resource in Bangladesh. Mostly men fish, and both men and women collect aquatic plants and snails. Case studies contrast a women-only, men-only, and mixed community based organization (CBO), each of which manages a seasonal floodplain...
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poverty and social equity in Nepal. In addition, they note the importance of building both the capacity of individual women …
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"Men and women participate in collective action for different purposes in northern Nigeria. Field work conducted in six villages show that while men engage in community activities such as road repairs, maintenance of schools and hospitals, refuse collection and maintenance of the traditional...
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differ significantly in the number of groups they join, however, there are clear gender differences in the types of groups to …
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developing countries out of poverty. While participation in high-value markets has been shown to be beneficial for farmers … the role of gender and collective action. Based on household data from 270 finger millet producers, a probit model on … participate in a group are disadvantaged in terms of selling prices, there is no gender effect on selling prices if a female …
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Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals'...
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Preventing overfishing at Lake Victoria is a typical situation where policies have to rely on norm-based interventions to improve outcomes. Our lab-in-the-field experiment studies how information about high or low levels of previous cooperation affects the creation of social norms in a...
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