Voluntary Cooperation in the Commons? Evaluating the Sea State Program with Reduced Form and Structural Models
用面板数据和准实验方法评估一项自愿保护计划对公共资源的影响，结合差分差分法和行为模型分离激励效应，揭示支持合作的因素。
We utilize a variety of approaches to examine the success of a voluntary conservation program for a common property resource. The availability of panel data and a nonparticipatory group lets us use quasi-experimental methods to investigate the distribution of outcome treatment effects. We supplement these methods by incorporating a difference-in-differences structure into a behavioral model of fishing location choice to disentangle the program’s incentive effects from potentially misleading temporal variations in behavioral constraints. Our findings yield insight into the factors that support cooperation and illustrate the power of the complementary use of structural and reduced form models in program evaluation. <i></i>