Land Rights and Community Cooperation

Ragnhild Haugli Braaten

World Development, 2014, vol. 61, issue C, 127-141

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: public goods experiment; cooperation norms; land rights; community; Latin America; Peru (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.04.002

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