Fight Or Flight: Migration and Conflict Over A Common Pool Resource

<p>This paper adds to the theoretical literature regarding the early development of effective property rights by integrating an analytical model of migration into a conflict model of property appropriation from a common pool resource. Anthropological observations are used to motivate the development of the theory. The model suggests that incentives to migrate will result in expenditures on enforcement of insecure claims to the resource that are lower than previously indicated. Further, migration may encourage village fission, preventing population density from reaching levels necessary to encourage intensification of land use and formation of effective property rights.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Campus Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Moore School of Business

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Dennis, John Wiley

Contributors dc:contributor

• John Gordanier
• John Dermott

• Economics
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• collective action
• common pool resource
• conflict
• early development
• migration
• property rights

Statement dc:rights

• © 2012, John Wiley Dennis

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/910

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-1911