Self-Governance and Punishment: An Experimental Study among Namibian Forest Users

Authors :: Loukas Balafoutas
Björn Vollan
Michael Pröpper
Andreas Landmann
Source :: Economic Development and Cultural Change. 67:935-967
Publication Year :: 2019
Publisher :: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Abstract: We use a framed field experiment to assess resource harvesting behavior and its interaction with prosocial and antisocial punishment in the Kavango woodland savannah of Namibia. We impleme...

Subjects :: Economics and Econometrics
Resource (biology)
Prosocial behavior
Punishment
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Self-governance
Woodland
Development
Psychology
Social psychology
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