[PDF][PDF] The devil in the detail: a practical guide on designing payments for environmental services

S Engel - … Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2016‏ - nowpublishers.com
Payments for environmental services (PES) have become a popular approach to address
environmental degradation. However, evidence on its effectiveness is scarce and rather …

Common-pool resources and institutions: Toward a revised theory

E Ostrom - Handbook of agricultural economics, 2002‏ - Elsevier
In the conventional theory of common-pool resources, participants do not undertake efforts
to design their own governance arrangements. Substantial empirical evidence exists …

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

P Richerson, R Baldini, AV Bell, K Demps… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2016‏ - cambridge.org
Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

Cooperating with the future

OP Hauser, DG Rand, A Peysakhovich, MA Nowak - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
Overexploitation of renewable resources today has a high cost on the welfare of future
generations,,,,. Unlike in other public goods games,,,, however, future generations cannot …

Institution formation in public goods games

M Kosfeld, A Okada, A Riedl - American Economic Review, 2009‏ - aeaweb.org
Sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and
enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. We …

The value-added of laboratory experiments for the study of institutions and common-pool resources

E Ostrom - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006‏ - Elsevier
This article provides an overview of the effects of communication on experimental studies of
behavior and outcomes in common-pool resource (CPR) dilemmas. Aggregate outcomes in …

Do institutions for collective action evolve?

E Ostrom - Journal of bioeconomics, 2014‏ - Springer
In this paper I will provide an overview of our findings from studying irrigation systems in the
field so that readers who are not familiar with our prior research gain at least an initial sense …

The impact of recentralization on public services: A difference-in-differences analysis of the abolition of elected councils in Vietnam

EJ Malesky, CV Nguyen, A Tran - American Political Science Review, 2014‏ - cambridge.org
Comparative political economy offers a wealth of hypotheses connecting decentralization to
improved public service delivery. In recent years, influential formal and experimental work …

Factors influencing cooperation in commons dilemmas: A review of experimental psychological research

S Kopelman, JM Weber… - The drama of the commons, 2002‏ - books.google.com
114 FACTORS INFLUENCING COOPERATION IN COMMONS DILEMMAS of the choices
made by others;(2) a noncooperative choice is always harmful to others compared to a …

Socio-ecological explanations for crowding-out effects from economic field experiments in southern Africa

B Vollan - Ecological Economics, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Economic and psychological literature mentions three conditions under which the crowding-
out effect of pro-social behaviour is likely to occur and to crowd out citizens' moral …