Ethnic Diversity, Property Rights, and Natural Resources

Baggio, Jacopo A.; Papyrakis, Elissaios

doi:10.1111/j.1746-1049.2010.00116.x

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“…risk level in investing in the resource) has little effect on individual investment and extraction levels; and (3) the action-reaction feedback is fundamental in determining the success or failure of communities, at least within the limits of our study. Our results confirm the basic dynamics of Ostrom's behavioral model of collective action (Ostrom 1998 Correlogram between variables Montalvo andReynal-Querol 2005, Baggio andPapyrakis 2010). Correcting for correlation between error terms (in the manner proposed by Zellner (1962)), increases the efficiency of the estimated coefficients and decreases our system's sensitivity to specification errors.…”

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Irrigation experiments in the lab: trust, environmental variability, and collective action

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ABSTRACT. Research on collective action and common-pool resources is extensive. However, little work has concentrated on the effect of variability in resource availability and collective action, especially in the context of asymmetric access to resources. Earlier works have demonstrated that environmental variability often leads to a reduction of collective action in the governance of shared resources. Here we assess how environmental variability may impact collective action. We performed a behavioral experiment involving an irrigation dilemma. In this dilemma participants invested first into a public fund that generated water resources for the group, which were subsequently appropriated by one participant at a time from head end to tail end. The amount of resource generated for the given investment level was determined by a payoff table and a stochastic event representing environmental variability, i.e., rainfall. Results show that that (1) upstream users' behavior is by far the most important variable in determining the outcome of collective action; (2) environmental variability (i.e. risk level in investing in the resource) has little effect on individual investment and extraction levels; and (3) the action-reaction feedback is fundamental in determining the success or failure of communities.

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Irrigation experiments in the lab: trust, environmental variability, and collective action

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“…Several papers suggest that mineral 9 resources hamper the development of a good institutional framework, e.g. by breeding corruption and rent-seeking (Baggio and Papyrakis, 2010;Bulte et al, 2005;Isham et al, 2005;Leite and Weidman, 2002;Torvik, 2002). Several papers have associated mineral resources with rent-seeking by focusing on the role of (mineral-rent distorted)…”

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“…There have been several empirical cross-country analyses (using regression analysis) demonstrating a strong negative correlation between mineral resources and several institutional variables (e.g. for corruption, see Arezki and Brückner, 2011;Leite and Weidmann, 2002, for rule of law, see Kolstad, 2009;Norman, 2009;Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian, 2012; for quality of bureaucracy, see Brunnschweiler andBulte, 2008, Isham et al, 2005; for property rights protection see Baggio and Papyrakis, 2010;Brunnschweiler, 2008, for transparency see Williams, 2011).…”

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The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels

Gilberthorpe

Papyrakis

2015

The Extractive Industries and Society

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The resource curse literature has necessarily evolved in a rather fragmented way.While economists, political economists and political scientists have largely focused on the role of mineral abundance in long-term growth with the analysis largely confined to the country (macro) or regional (meso) level, anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists have explored the development impacts of extractive industries at the community (micro) level. While this has provided a rigorous and comprehensive exploration of extractive industries and their impacts, causal factors that bridge and/or leap-frog these levels tend not to be accounted for.In this paper we examine the evolution of literature across disciplinary lines and different levels of scale to assess the current status of resource curse debates. In so doing, we aim to explore how an integration of the various multi-scale approaches can help address the persistent problem of the resource curse.

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“…Much of the so-called resource curse literature has developed theoretical and empirical research explaining the negative correlation observed between several measures of mineral abundance and long-term economic growth (Andersen and Aslaksen, 2008;Arezki and van der Ploeg, 2010;Baggio and Papyrakis, 2010;Caselli and Cunningham, 2009;Gylfason and Zoega, 2006;Kolstad, 2009;Murshed and Serino, 2011;Gerlagh, 2004, 2007;Papyrakis, 2011Papyrakis, , 2014Sachs and Warner 1995, 1997, 1999a, 1999b). Much of this literature (to which this paper belongs) pays particular attention to oil and its correlates (e.g.…”

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Income inequality and the oil resource curse

Parcero

Papyrakis

2016

Resource and Energy Economics

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Surprisingly, there has been little research conducted about the cross-country relationship between oil dependence/abundance and income inequality. At the same time, there is some tentative evidence suggesting that oil rich nations tend to under-report data on income inequality, which can potentially influence the estimated empirical relationships between oil richness and income inequality. In this paper we contribute to the literature in a twofold manner. First, we explore in depth the empirical relationship between oil and income inequality by making use of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database -the most comprehensive dataset on income inequality providing comparable data for the broadest set of country-year observations. Second, this is the first study to our knowledge that adopts an empirical framework to examine whether oil rich nations tend to under-report data on income inequality and the possible implications thereof. We make use of Heckman selection models to validate the tendency of oil rich countries to under-report and correct for the bias that might arise as a result of this -we find that oil is associated with lower income inequality with the exception of the very oil-rich economies.

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Ethnic Diversity, Property Rights, and Natural Resources

Cited by 36 publications

References 63 publications

Irrigation experiments in the lab: trust, environmental variability, and collective action

Irrigation experiments in the lab: trust, environmental variability, and collective action

The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels

Income inequality and the oil resource curse

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