Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities
It is widely recognized that local management of common pool resources can be more ecient and more e↵ective than private markets or top- own government management, especially in remote rural communities in which the institutions necessary for the enforcement of centrally-imposed regulations may be w...
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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2019
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| author | Ward, Patrick S. Alvi, Muzna Makhija, Simrin Spielman, David J. |
| author_browse | Alvi, Muzna Makhija, Simrin Spielman, David J. Ward, Patrick S. |
| author_facet | Ward, Patrick S. Alvi, Muzna Makhija, Simrin Spielman, David J. |
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| description | It is widely recognized that local management of common pool resources can be more ecient and more e↵ective than private markets or top- own government management, especially in remote rural communities in which the institutions necessary for the enforcement of centrally-imposed regulations may be weak or prone to elite capture. In this paper, we explore the propensity for cooperation in the management of local common resources by introducing a varient of a public goods game among remote rural communities in the state of Odisha, in eastern India. We explore various patterns of cooperation, including free riding behavior, uncoditional cooperation (altruism), and conditional cooperation, in which individuals’ propensisty toward cooperation is tied to their beliefs about the level of cooperation among their peers. We find that a significant portion of our sample fall into this latter category, but also that their expectations about the level of contributions among their peers is somewhat malleable, and beneficial activities from external actors such as NGOs can foster increased social cohesion which increases both the level of these expectations and the manner in which these expectations are translated into subsequent cooperative behavior. We also find that cooperation is somewhat fragile, with group heterogeneity and risk in the returns to cooperative behavior posing a threat to the stability of the cooperative system. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1466532024-11-13T12:23:07Z Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities Ward, Patrick S. Alvi, Muzna Makhija, Simrin Spielman, David J. resource management rural communities resources local communities experimental design behaviour cooperation It is widely recognized that local management of common pool resources can be more ecient and more e↵ective than private markets or top- own government management, especially in remote rural communities in which the institutions necessary for the enforcement of centrally-imposed regulations may be weak or prone to elite capture. In this paper, we explore the propensity for cooperation in the management of local common resources by introducing a varient of a public goods game among remote rural communities in the state of Odisha, in eastern India. We explore various patterns of cooperation, including free riding behavior, uncoditional cooperation (altruism), and conditional cooperation, in which individuals’ propensisty toward cooperation is tied to their beliefs about the level of cooperation among their peers. We find that a significant portion of our sample fall into this latter category, but also that their expectations about the level of contributions among their peers is somewhat malleable, and beneficial activities from external actors such as NGOs can foster increased social cohesion which increases both the level of these expectations and the manner in which these expectations are translated into subsequent cooperative behavior. We also find that cooperation is somewhat fragile, with group heterogeneity and risk in the returns to cooperative behavior posing a threat to the stability of the cooperative system. 2019-10-21 2024-06-21T09:07:58Z 2024-06-21T09:07:58Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146653 en Open Access Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Ward, Patrick S.; Alvi, Muzna; Makhija, Simrin; and Spielman, David J. 2019. Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities. Presented at the AAEA Annual Meeting in Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, United States, July 21-23, 2019. https://purl.umn.edu/291055 |
| spellingShingle | resource management rural communities resources local communities experimental design behaviour cooperation Ward, Patrick S. Alvi, Muzna Makhija, Simrin Spielman, David J. Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities |
| title | Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities |
| title_full | Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities |
| title_fullStr | Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities |
| title_short | Cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities |
| title_sort | cooperation and the provision of local public goods in remote rural communities |
| topic | resource management rural communities resources local communities experimental design behaviour cooperation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146653 |
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