Browsing by Author "Chankrajang, Thanyaporn"

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The Effects of Rural Land Right Security on Labour Structural Transformation and Urbanization: Evidence from Thailand
(2012) Chankrajang, Thanyaporn
"This paper attempts to contribute to the understanding of the impacts of secure rural agricultural land rights on labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on Thailand. Using province-level panel data and instrumental variable strategy, partial land right entitlement (known in Thailand as SPK4-01 titling) is found to have a positive impact on labour movement towards the non-agricultural sector. In particular, approximately 27 per cent of this impact can be explained by enhanced farm productivity. This, in addition, implies that the reduction of the opportunity costs of off-farm employment, which is also a predicted positive impact of titling on non-agricultural employment, should account for the rest of the overall impact on labour structural transformation Although SPK4-01 titling alone is found to have no significant effect on urbanization, its impact depends significantly on within-province transport infrastructure. More specifically, rural land right security increases urbanization more in provinces with poorer road networks. In other words, secure land rights lead to urban concentration and urban non-farm diversification only when it is relatively costly to commute within the province."
State-Community Cooperation in the Commons and its Contribution to Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Thailand's Community Forest
(2013) Chankrajang, Thanyaporn
"The paper contributes to a much discussed research question that whether and when it improves matters, in this case, environmental outcomes, to vest ownership in public entity or collectivities. It, both theoretically and empirically, offers a new solution that ownership can be shared, as forests cover a wide range of resources. Some resources can be vested under public ownership and some can be vested under the local community. With cooperation, this can solve hold-up problems and create an incentive for human capital sharing that ultimately leads to optimal human capital investments and hence better environmental outcomes. Empirically, the paper takes Thailand's 'forest community registration' programme as a measure for such cooperation. Although the registration does not give de jure common property rights to the communities, it marks the cooperation and the sharing of knowledge and human capital between the state and communities in protecting the forests. Based on both baseline fixed effect and instrumental variable strategy estimations, it is found that at the province level, an increase in the degree of cooperation is associated with (i) a reduction in the occurrence of forest fires, (ii) a decrease in air pollution, and (iii) lower level of forest deterioration and an improvement in forest regeneration."