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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Wang, Yahua; Chen, Chunliang; Tao, Ye |
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Conference:
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Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop 5 |
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Location:
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Indiana University, Bloomington |
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Conf. Date:
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June 18-21, 2014 |
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Date:
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2014 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9402
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Sector:
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Water Resource & Irrigation |
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Region:
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East Asia |
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Subject(s):
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collective action
common pool resources
irrigation
labor
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Abstract:
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"Irrigation systems have long been used as an important case for studying collective action in the empirical common pool resources (CPRs) literature. Based on a large-scale representative survey of Chinese rural areas, we use econometric analysis to examine the factors that influence collective action in the commons. The novelty of the current study is the introduction of a new ordered collective irrigation measure based on different types of rural irrigation and the subsequent study of labor outflow, a rarely explored but crucial variable in developing countries, and other factors affecting collective irrigation participation. We found that labor outflow had an adverse effect on participation in collective irrigation, and in cases of close proximity to urban centers or towns, widened inequality, and when occurring in hilly areas and areas with historically scarce water resource, the presence of fewer household laborers and poor water endowment tend to reduce the incentives to participate in collective irrigation. These findings remain robust for various equation specifications, taking into account measurement errors on both the dependent and control variables sides, thus contributing some new insights to the existing CPRs literature."
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