Land Reform in Africa: No-Intervention Agreements
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This paper investigates the effect that an option to call a mediator has on using voluntary agreements to solve a land conflict using a framed field experiment in the highlands of Ethiopia. A game theoretical model to describe this situation is constructed including a discussion related to social preferences, which subsequently the experimental design is based on. Our results indicate that almost one-third of farmers choose the costly mediator options. Among farmers those not choosing mediator when available, a higher proportion choose equal
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Land Reform in Southern and Eastern Africa:
Report on a desktop study commissioned by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) This paper was prepared under contract with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The positions and opinions presented are those of the author alone, and are not intended to represent the views of FAO. 2 CONTENTS List of Tables 4 Abbreviations used in the text 4 Acknowledgements 4 ...
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