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标题：Rules Compliance and Age: Experimental Evidence with Fishers from the Amazon River
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作者：Maria Alejandra Velez ; Maria Claudia Lopez
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2013
卷号：18
期号：3
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：We report the results of common-pool resource economic experiments conducted with indigenous communitiesin the Colombian Amazon. The experiments recreate two contexts: a limited open access with no institutions regulating thefisheries and a nonmonetary external regulation that limits individual extraction when a fisher is found to be overextracting.We find that variables that did not explain behavior under limited open access do so under the regulatory institution. In particular,when the nonmonetary external regulation was introduced, we found a nonlinear significant effect of age on individual harvest.This result implies a negative relationship between age and individual extraction that reaches a peak around age 54. Our resultssuggest that in our sample, age groups react differently to an institution aimed to manage the fishery and open a discussionregarding the role of older fishers when a new regulation is introduced to manage natural resources. Their role could go beyondthe dissemination of traditional knowledge and cultural systems since older fishers could be key actors in disseminating andadapting new institutions
关键词：age; common-pool resources; field experiments; regulations; social dilemmas