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Luz A. Rodriguez, Maria Alejandra Velez, Alexander Pfaff<\/div>\n
World Development 147 (2021) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.worlddev.2021.105648<\/div>\n

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Globally, small-scale gold mining (SSGM) is an important economic option for many rural poor. It involves local uses of shared resources, like common-pool contexts for which self-governance has avoided \u2018tragedies of the commons\u2019. Yet even ideal local governance of SSGM is not societally efficient given non-local damages that suggest external interventions for desired shifts. Because transactions costs are high for rewarding reductions in damages on remote mining frontiers, states could gain if rewards based on low-cost, group compliance measures could successfully induce cooperation in response to policy. However, as group-level rewards invite free-riding, such success requires local collective action. Since that guarantees neither efficient coordination nor equitable distributions of net benefits from compliance, we consider the impacts of emergent leaders on local responses to external policy. We employ framed lab experiments with 200 small-scale gold miners in Colombia\u2019s Pacific to explore leaders\u2019 impacts on equity and efficiency in collective responses to external incentives. Allowing communication before individual choice, which raises efficiency but not always equity, we can identify emergent leaders of groups\u2019 communications. Leaders raise compliance and affect how its costs are distributed, suggesting access to leadership roles matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luz A. Rodriguez, Maria Alejandra Velez, Alexander Pfaff World Development 147 (2021) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.worlddev.2021.105648 Globally, small-scale gold mining (SSGM) is an important economic option for many rural poor. It involves local uses of shared resources, like common-pool contexts for which self-governance has avoided \u2018tragedies of the commons\u2019. Yet even ideal local governance of SSGM is not societally efficient given non-local damages that suggest external interventions for desired shifts. Because transactions costs are high for rewarding reductions in damages on remote mining frontiers, states could gain if rewards based on low-cost, group compliance measures could successfully induce cooperation in response to policy. However, as group-level rewards invite free-riding, such success requires local collective action. Since that guarantees neither efficient coordination nor equitable distributions of net benefits from compliance, we consider the impacts of emergent leaders on local responses to external policy. We employ framed lab experiments with 200 small-scale gold miners in Colombia\u2019s Pacific to explore leaders\u2019 impacts on equity and efficiency in collective responses to external incentives. Allowing communication before individual choice, which raises efficiency but not always equity, we can identify emergent leaders of groups\u2019 communications. Leaders raise compliance and affect how its costs are distributed, suggesting access to leadership…<\/p>\n

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