Land Rights and Community Cooperation: Public Goods Experiments from Peru
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Forfattere:
Bråten, Ragnhild Haugli
År:
2014
Referanse:
vol 61, 127-141Sammendrag (engelsk)
Joint land rights in peasant communities are often held to preserve cooperation norms better than individual land rights. This study uses contributions in public goods experiments as a measure of cooperation norms in 15 jointly- or individually-owned peasant communities in the Peruvian Andes. Cooperation norms are significantly stronger in joint-ownership communities, when controlling for relevant exogenous variables. This effect is found only among men, who are considered the main landholders in a household and are thus more likely to respond to the incentives provided by the land right system.
Nøkkelord:
public goods experiment; cooperation norms; land rights; community; Latin America; Peru
Prosjekt info:
Oppdragsgiver: Norges forskningsråd, Miljø2015Oppdragsgivers prosjektnr.: 183593
Frisch prosjekt: 3171 - SAMFUNN: Norms, green agents and environmental policy