Decentralization, market integration and efficiency-equity trade-offs : evidence from joint forest management in Ethiopian villages

dc.contributor.authorGelo, Dambala
dc.contributor.authorMuchapondwa, Edwin
dc.contributor.authorKoch, Steven F.
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-08T10:26:50Z
dc.date.issued2016-01
dc.description.abstractExtant literature on Joint Forest Management (JFM) impact evaluation has concluded that it generally does not provide sufficient incentives to justify the costs that forest use restrictions impose on local people. However, there is a dearth of evidence concerning whether alternative JFM intervention with improved market linkages for non-timber forest products has similar implications. In this study, we evaluated the income and distributive effects of a JFM program in Ethiopia in which additional support was provided for improved market linkages for non-timber forest products (NTFPs). Exploiting exogenous variation in customary rights across eligible groups of communities that participate in JFM programs, as well as using heteroskedasticitybased instrumentations, we identified the income and distributive effects of the program. Our analysis shows that the program has raised the income of the households who chose to participate by approximately 400 Ethiopian Birr or 26% of per capita expenditure; that result was robust to various specifications. We also found that this effect is largely driven by marketing incentives to use non-timber forest products. However, we found that the program’s benefit is biased toward the upper end of the income distribution, a result that points to the inequality-reinforcing effects of the program.en_ZA
dc.description.embargo2017-01-31
dc.description.librarianhb2015en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.elsevier.com/locate/jfeen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGelo, D, Muchapondwa, E & Koch, SF 2016, 'Decentralization, market integration and efficiency-equity trade-offs : evidence from joint forest management in Ethiopian villages', Journal of Forest Economics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-23.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1104-6899 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1618-1530 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.jfe.2015.10.003
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/51719
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherElsevieren_ZA
dc.rights© 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Forest Economics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Forest Economics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-23, 2016. doi :10.1016/j.jfe.2015.10.003.en_ZA
dc.subjectTreatment effecten_ZA
dc.subjectMarket linkageen_ZA
dc.subjectDistributive effecten_ZA
dc.subjectJoint forest management (JFM)en_ZA
dc.subjectNon-timber forest products (NTFPs)en_ZA
dc.titleDecentralization, market integration and efficiency-equity trade-offs : evidence from joint forest management in Ethiopian villagesen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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