Jorge Higinio Maldonado

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of micro-finance programs on a rural household's demand for schooling is identified: income growth, risk management, child-labor demand, gender empowerment, and parent information.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multidisciplinary team gathered to evaluate management effectiveness including biophysical, socioeconomic and governance indicators, showing that low adaptive capacity of communities to comply with restrictive conservation rules is a necessary but insufficient condition to guarantee conservation goals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of scavengers in a dynamic model of production, consumption, and recovery is discussed, and it is shown that, in an economy producing solid waste, efficiency can be reached using a set of specific and complementary policies: a tax on virgin materials use, a taxon consumption and disposal, and a subsidy to the recovery of material.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of internal communication, external regulation, and the interaction between internal regulation and non-coercive authority intervention on fishermen's extraction decisions were investigated using economic experimental games (EEGs).

TL;DR: In this paper, the willingness to pay (WTP) higher fees from hydrological service buyers in an ongoing PES initiative in an Andean watershed in Colombia, where small, flat user payments have been introduced.