Repartition: Monetary Incentives as a Colonial Policy

This study is concerned with understanding the impacts of the changed incentive structure introduced with the repartition policy in 19th century colonial Greenland. Using archival research, this study shows how the policy was designed to increase industrious behavior and caring for one another by in...

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Main Author: Braunschweig, Emil Kofoed
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen 2021
Subjects:
Incentives
Colonialism
Arctic
Difference-in-Difference
Social Sciences
Greenland
Online Access:http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9114304
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Summary:This study is concerned with understanding the impacts of the changed incentive structure introduced with the repartition policy in 19th century colonial Greenland. Using archival research, this study shows how the policy was designed to increase industrious behavior and caring for one another by introducing monetary incentives. By transcribing data on catch yield, it is for the first time possible to evaluate the effect of the policy on productivity understood in terms of seal catch yield. The study finds some support for a higher seal catch yield following the introduction of the repartition practice.

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