The Impact of Institutional and Land Use Change on Local Incomes in Chilean Patagonia

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ID20301707
AuthorsA Patrick Behrer (0000-0001-6946-7213, Kennedy School, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA, corresponding author), Dale T Manning (0000-0001-6465-5530, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA), Andrew Seidl (0000-0002-2338-1307, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA)
Year2019
Volume55
Issue2
Pages191-208
Publication date2019-02-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220388.2017.1385766
OpenAlexW2766623444
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited38

Many developing rural economies depend on natural capital stocks for generating income and wealth. However, common property natural resources are often over-exploited. One method of solving over-exploitation is privatisation of the resource. In Palena, Chile, the privatisation of common-property grazing land facilitated a change in land use from grazing to tourism activities. We present a theoretical model that demonstrates that privatisation that leads to land use change has the potential to increase local wages. To resolve theoretical ambiguities, we calibrate a local general equilibrium model and find that privatisation and a switch to tourism resulted in higher wages in the local economy of Palena. This finding contributes to the ongoing investigation of the local costs and benefits of resource privatisation in developing countries

Business · Capital (architecture) · Common-pool resource · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Land use · Microeconomics · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Property rights · Resource (disambiguation) · Tourism · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Land Rights and Reforms · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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