Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden
This paper presents a first empirical assessment of carnivore conservation under a performance payment scheme. In Sweden, reindeer herder villages are paid based on the number of lynx (lynx lynx) and wolverine (gulo gulo) offspring certified on their pastures. The villages decide on the internal pay...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:kap:enreec:v:59:y:2014:i:4:p:613-631 2024-04-14T08:12:41+00:00 Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden Astrid Zabel Göran Bostedt Stefanie Engel http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10640-013-9752-x unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10640-013-9752-x article ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:30:40Z This paper presents a first empirical assessment of carnivore conservation under a performance payment scheme. In Sweden, reindeer herder villages are paid based on the number of lynx (lynx lynx) and wolverine (gulo gulo) offspring certified on their pastures. The villages decide on the internal payment distribution. It is generally assumed that benefit distribution rules are exogenous. We investigate them as an endogenous decision. The data reveals that villages’ group size has a direct negative effect on conservation outcomes and an indirect positive effect which impacts conservation outcomes through the benefit distribution rule. This result revises the collective action hypothesis on purely negative effects of group size. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Performance payments, Group payments, Wildlife conservation, Empirical policy assessment, Sweden, Lynx, Wolverine Article in Journal/Newspaper Gulo gulo Northern Sweden Lynx Lynx lynx lynx RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) |
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This paper presents a first empirical assessment of carnivore conservation under a performance payment scheme. In Sweden, reindeer herder villages are paid based on the number of lynx (lynx lynx) and wolverine (gulo gulo) offspring certified on their pastures. The villages decide on the internal payment distribution. It is generally assumed that benefit distribution rules are exogenous. We investigate them as an endogenous decision. The data reveals that villages’ group size has a direct negative effect on conservation outcomes and an indirect positive effect which impacts conservation outcomes through the benefit distribution rule. This result revises the collective action hypothesis on purely negative effects of group size. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Performance payments, Group payments, Wildlife conservation, Empirical policy assessment, Sweden, Lynx, Wolverine |
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Astrid Zabel Göran Bostedt Stefanie Engel |
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Astrid Zabel Göran Bostedt Stefanie Engel Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden |
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Astrid Zabel Göran Bostedt Stefanie Engel |
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Astrid Zabel |
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Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden |
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Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden |
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Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden |
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Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden |
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Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden |
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performance payments for groups: the case of carnivore conservation in northern sweden |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10640-013-9752-x |
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Gulo gulo Northern Sweden Lynx Lynx lynx lynx |
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Gulo gulo Northern Sweden Lynx Lynx lynx lynx |
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