[VCEE Seminar] VCEE Seminar 12.11.2021
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Dear members and friends of the VCEE,
you are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on Friday, Nov 12, 2021, from
10:30 to 12:00 HS 3 Vienna time.
We will have one speaker: Daan van Soest (Tilburg University)
Here is more information about the talk:
Incentivizing conservation of de facto community-owned forests
Abstract
How to effectively protect nature on lands that are, de facto or de jure,
commonly owned as is the case with the vast majority of forests in
developing countries is among todays most important environmental
questions. Offering conditional conservation payments have been found to be
effective in inducing conservation on private lands, but they may give rise
to strong free-riding incentives on common property lands. We implement a
Randomized Controlled Trial in arid Burkina Faso to test the relative
effectiveness of two types of collective conditional payment schemes a
linear group payment scheme, in which group payments increase linearly with
tree survival rates, and a threshold group payment scheme. While extant
theory predicts the latter incentive mechanism to (weakly) outperform the
former, we develop new theory that shows that the reverse may also hold
but only if the relationship between effort and tree survival rates is very
uncertain. We find that threshold group payments increase intermediate
measures of cooperation, but we also find that consistent with Burkina
Fasos harsh conditions rendering tree survival quite stochastic actual
survival rates are higher with the linear group payments. We present both
fieldexperimental evidence as well as lab-experimental results to explore
the mechanisms giving rise to these results.
If you are interested in meeting Daan van Soest after the seminar (meeting
slots of 30 , room no 05.330 please register via this doodle-link:
https://doodle.com/poll/dhmidphz9c3p6dxw?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
Best regards,
Wieland Müller
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