This paper presents an experimental study oftwo different pollution compliance games:collective vis-à-vis random fining as ameans to regulate non-pointpollution. Using samples from both Costa Ricancoffee mill managers and Costa Rican students,we find that the two games perform equivalentlybut,...

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional del Cono Sur celebrada el día 17 de abril de 2006 en Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de Centroamérica y México celebrada el día 3 de julio de 2006 en San José, Costa Rica. El documento expone una serie de casos que incluye FONAFIFO (Costa Rica);...

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la V Reunión Hemisférica celebrada el día 30 de noviembre de 2006

Summary This paper presents an institutional analysis of the underlying factors affecting the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in rural Costa Rica. More than 1,000 of these organizations provide water to 60% of the rural population and show great disparity in their...

Using a natural field experiment in a recreational site, a public good almost fully dependent on voluntary donations, we explored the crowding-out effect of gift rewards. First, we investigated whether receiving a map in appreciation of a donation crowded out prosocial behavior and found no...

The risk of losing income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing a productive landscape and is, of course, hard to estimate or even “guesstimate” empirically. Moreover, the costs associated with investments in adaptation to climate are...

We conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. As observed before, we see visitors conforming to the changing social reference. On the other hand, the treatment in which we...

This paper presents an institutional analysis of the underlying factors affecting the performance of drinking-water community organizations in rural areas of Costa Rica. These organizations provide water to more than 60 percent of the total rural population. There is, however, a great disparity...

Using a natural field experiment in a recreational site, a public good almost fully dependent on voluntary donations, we explored the crowding-out effect of gift rewards. First, we investigated whether receiving a map in appreciation of a donation crowded out prosocial behavior and found no...