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Does securing the commons conserve resources and improve well-being?

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  • Delacote, Philippe
  • Meyer, Jessica
  • Palmer, Charles

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Policies to secure property rights extend over hundreds of millions of hectares of land claimed as common property. Well-being and resource outcomes from securing the commons are theoretically shown to vary, conditional on local institutional quality and the extent of resource dependence among policy recipients. A differences-in-differences framework is applied to micro-scale panel data to evaluate the impacts of securing forest commons in Malawi. We find short-term negative effects on food security and non-food expenditures but no impact on forest loss rates. Baseline institutional capacity and households' labour portfolios are empirically shown to condition outcomes, with implications for policy targeting.

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  • Delacote, Philippe & Meyer, Jessica & Palmer, Charles, 2026. "Does securing the commons conserve resources and improve well-being?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 137199, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:137199
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    JEL classification:

    • N0 - Economic History - - General
    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General

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