[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 today’s 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
Faso’s 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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