The benefits of titling indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon : a stated preference approach

Allen Blackman, Sahan Dissanayake, Adan Martinez Cruz, Leonardo Corral and Maja Schling

We conduct a discrete choice experiment with leaders of a random sample of 164 Peruvian indigenous communities (ICs) - to our knowledge, the first use of rigorous stated preference methods to analyze land titling. We find that: (i) on average, IC leaders are willing to pay US$35,000-45,000 for a title, roughly twice the per community administrative cost of titling; (ii) WTP is positively correlated with the value of IC land and the risk of land grabbing; and (iii) leaders prefer titling processes that involve indigenous representatives and titles that encompass land with cultural value.

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Year of publication:	December 2022
Authors:	Blackman, Allen ; Dissanayake, Sahan ; Cruz, Adan Martinez ; Corral, Leonardo ; Schling, Maja
Publisher:	[Washington, DC] : Inter-American Development Bank, Department of Research and Chief Economist
Subject:	discrete choice experiment \| indigenous community \| land rights \| mixed multinomiallogit \| Indigene Völker \| Indigenous peoples \| Peru \| Bodenrecht \| Land tenure \| Diskrete Entscheidung \| Discrete choice \| Zahlungsbereitschaftsanalyse \| Willingness to pay \| Experiment \| Offenbarte Präferenzen \| Revealed preferences