Randall Bluffstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3704950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randall Bluffstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randall |
| FAMILY NAME | Bluffstone |
| SIGNATURE | BLUFFSTONE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do Formal Community Forestry Programs Improve Collective Action and Forest Outcomes
Forest tenure reform and devolution are taking place around the world, especially in lower-income countries, primarily to support environmental and livelihood goals. However, whether forest devolution to communities results in improved forest collective action is not fully understood. In this paper, we assess the effect of Nepal’s formal Community Forestry (CF) Program on forest collective action and outcomes. We utilize data from a nationally re…
Effet de la migration internationale de main‐d'œuvre sur l'agriculture au Népal: Mise en friche, diversification des moyens de subsistance et adoption de technologies agricoles
Les auteurs étudient l'effet de la migration internationale temporaire de main‐d'œuvre sur l'abandon de terres cultivées, l'adoption de techniques d'intensification agricole et la diversification des moyens de subsistance au Népal. Ils appliquent des méthodes empiriques d'inférence causale en s'appuyant sur des données représentatives au niveau national. Ils établissent que les familles de migrants ont plus de 50 pour cent de chances en plus de l…
Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia
An assessment of collective action drivers of carbon storage in Nepalese forest commons
Measuring Risk Preferences in Rural Ethiopia
Risk aversion is generally found to decrease in income. Between countries, comparative findings with students suggest that people in poorer countries are more risk tolerant, potentially giving rise to a risk-income paradox. We test the robustness of this finding by measuring the risk preferences of 500 household heads in the highlands of Ethiopia. We find high degrees of risk tolerance, consistent with the evidence obtained for students using the…
Livestock and Private Tree Holdings in Rural Ethiopia: The Effects of Collective Action Institutions, Tenure Security and Market Access
This article uses househld panel data spanning the period 2000–2007 to test hypotheses from the literature that secure land tenure, market access and collective action promote accumulation of private capital assets in rural highland Ethiopia. The three natural capital assets analysed in the article, livestock, eucalyptus trees and non-eucalyptus trees on households’ farm plots, make up virtually 100 per cent of privately held disposable assets. I…
Poverty, Risk Aversion, and Path Dependence in Low‐Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
In most low‐income countries, rural households depend on mixed rain‐fed agriculture/livestock production, which is very risky. Due to numerous market failures, there are few ways to shift risks to third parties. The literature has focused on what determines the responses of households in such environments. Of special concern are path dependencies in which households experiencing failure are prone to further failure and potential poverty traps. Th…
Privatization and contaminated site remediation in Central and Eastern Europe: Do environmental liability policies matter
Lemons and liabilities: Privatization, foreign investment, and environmental liability in Central and Eastern Europe
Lemons and liabilities: Privatization, foreign investment, and environmental liability in Central and Eastern Europe
Privatization and contaminated site remediation in Central and Eastern Europe: Do environmental liability policies matter
Poverty, Risk Aversion, and Path Dependence in Low‐Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
In most low‐income countries, rural households depend on mixed rain‐fed agriculture/livestock production, which is very risky. Due to numerous market failures, there are few ways to shift risks to third parties. The literature has focused on what determines the responses of households in such environments. Of special concern are path dependencies in which households experiencing failure are prone to further failure and potential poverty traps. Th…
Livestock and Private Tree Holdings in Rural Ethiopia: The Effects of Collective Action Institutions, Tenure Security and Market Access
This article uses househld panel data spanning the period 2000–2007 to test hypotheses from the literature that secure land tenure, market access and collective action promote accumulation of private capital assets in rural highland Ethiopia. The three natural capital assets analysed in the article, livestock, eucalyptus trees and non-eucalyptus trees on households’ farm plots, make up virtually 100 per cent of privately held disposable assets. I…
An assessment of collective action drivers of carbon storage in Nepalese forest commons
Measuring Risk Preferences in Rural Ethiopia
Risk aversion is generally found to decrease in income. Between countries, comparative findings with students suggest that people in poorer countries are more risk tolerant, potentially giving rise to a risk-income paradox. We test the robustness of this finding by measuring the risk preferences of 500 household heads in the highlands of Ethiopia. We find high degrees of risk tolerance, consistent with the evidence obtained for students using the…
Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia
Effet de la migration internationale de main‐d'œuvre sur l'agriculture au Népal: Mise en friche, diversification des moyens de subsistance et adoption de technologies agricoles
Les auteurs étudient l'effet de la migration internationale temporaire de main‐d'œuvre sur l'abandon de terres cultivées, l'adoption de techniques d'intensification agricole et la diversification des moyens de subsistance au Népal. Ils appliquent des méthodes empiriques d'inférence causale en s'appuyant sur des données représentatives au niveau national. Ils établissent que les familles de migrants ont plus de 50 pour cent de chances en plus de l…
Do Formal Community Forestry Programs Improve Collective Action and Forest Outcomes
Forest tenure reform and devolution are taking place around the world, especially in lower-income countries, primarily to support environmental and livelihood goals. However, whether forest devolution to communities results in improved forest collective action is not fully understood. In this paper, we assess the effect of Nepal’s formal Community Forestry (CF) Program on forest collective action and outcomes. We utilize data from a nationally re…
Economics (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Collective action (3 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Forestry (3 works) · Natural resource economics (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works)