Water Sharing in Rural Africa: The Behavioral Relevance of Scarcity and Social Status

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1554
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	D Exelle, Ben; Lecoutere, Els; Van Campenhout, Bjorn
Conference:	Workshop on the Workshop 4
Location:	Indiana University Bloomington
Conf. Date:	June 3-6, 2009
Date:	2009
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1554
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	scarcity rural affairs irrigation water resources data analysis
Abstract:	"Making use of a repeated distribution game experiment, we investigate how African peasants distribute and enforce water access in irrigation schemes. Two questions are addressed. First, we investigate the influence of scarcity by comparing a treatment of abundant water availability with a treatment where water is insufficient for both players to reach a minimum production threshold. Second, we study to what extent social status influences distribution and enforcement of water access. For this, we complement the experimental data with data from a social status ranking exercise."

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