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The Benefits of Titling Indigenous Communities in the Peruvian Amazon: A Stated Preference Approach

Blackman, Allen; Dissanayake, Sahan T. M.; Martinez-Cruz, Adan L.; Corral, Leonardo; Schling, Maja

Abstract

We conduct a discrete choice experiment with leaders of 164 Peruvian Indigenous communities (ICs) to elicit their preferences about and valuation of land titles-to our knowledge, the first use of rigorous stated preference methods to analyze land titling. We find that on average, IC leaders are willing to pay US$35,000-US$45,000 for a title, roughly twice the per community administrative cost of titling; willingness to pay is positively correlated with the value of IC land and the risk of land grabbing; and leaders prefer titling processes that involve Indigenous representatives and titles that encompass land with cultural value. (JEL Q13, Q15)

Published in

Land Economics
2024, Volume: 100, number: 2, pages: 333-352 Publisher: UNIV WISCONSIN PRESS

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
    Economics

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.100.2.092822-0075R

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    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/131244