The Impact of Property Rights to Fish on Remote Communities in Alaska
研究了1995年阿拉斯加比目鱼和黑鳕鱼捕捞配额私有化对偏远渔村的影响，发现人口下降5%-13%，应税收入减少15%-19%，且旨在保护社区的社会规则未能缓解这些负面效应。
Remote communities that rely on natural resource production may be differentially affected by changes in property rights to the resource. We examine the effect on remote fishing ports of the 1995 introduction of individual fishing quotas in the Alaskan halibut and sablefish fisheries, two of the first and largest adoptions. Using a two-way fixed effect difference-in-difference model, we find that affected remote communities see a 5%–13% decrease in population and declines in taxable sales revenue of 15%–19%. Quota allocation and market transfer rules, designed to address social objectives, generally failed to reduce these community effects.