Deforestation, Land Use, and Property Rights: Empirical Evidence from Darien, Panama
利用空间计量方法，评估巴拿马达连省国家公园和原住民保留地的产权安排对土地利用的影响，发现原住民产权能影响土地利用，而地理因素比法律保护对公园更重要。
<i>Economic conventional wisdom suggests that providing land users with more secure property rights will result in more sustainable land use and less deforestation. In this paper, we use spatial econometric techniques to evaluate quantitatively the effect on land use of designated property rights in three parts of Darién province––a national park where no human activity is supposed to occur, and two reserves for indigenous peoples. Results suggest that legal property rights for an indigenous population can influence land use. Geography appears to be more important than legal protection for the national park.</i>