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| Title: | Social Capital as an Instrument for Common Pool Resource |
| Other Titles: | A Case Study of Irrigation Management in Sri Lanka |
| Authors: | Aida, Takeshi |
| Keywords: | social capital
irrigation
field experiment
head-enders and tail-enders |
| Issue Date: | 9-Aug-2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | 33 |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates the effect of social capital between irrigation canal head-enders and
tail-enders on their water allocation problem. Although social capital is considered to be an
instrument for common pool resource management, a consensus has not been reached on its
effect among heterogeneous players. In irrigation management, the water allocation problem
between head-enders and tail-enders is one of these serious problems. Using unique natural
and artefactual field experiment data as well as general household survey data collected by
JICA, this study finds that social capital, especially trust toward their tail-enders, has a
significantly positive effect on satisfaction with water usage among head-enders. Considering
the fact that the incentive structure of irrigation water allocation for head-enders closely
resembles that in the dictator and trust games, this finding also supports the validity of
experimentally measured social capital. In addition, this study deals with the simultaneity bias
between satisfaction level and experimentally measured social capital, and finds that OLS
estimators are downward biased, which is consistent with the hypothesis that scarcity of
resources enhances the level of social capital. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10685/59 |
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