This paper presents results from an RCT exploring whether a behavioural intervention can improve the conservation of a common pool resource. The literature on common pool resource management suggests that the existence of rules and sanctions is important to resource conservation. However, behavioural science suggests that individuals have finite cognitive capacity and may not be attentive to these rules and sanctions. This paper investigates the impact of an SMS message intervention designed to improve users’ knowledge of and attentiveness to existing forest use rules. An RCT in Uganda explores the impact of these messages on forest use and compliance with the rules. This paper finds that SMS messages raise the perceived probability of sanctions for rule-breakers. However, SMS messages do not induce full compliance with forest use rules or systematically reduce forest use.

本文介绍了RCT的结果，探讨了行为干预是否可以改善公共资源库的保存。有关公共资源池管理的文献表明，规则和制裁的存在对资源保护很重要。但是，行为科学表明，个人的认知能力有限，可能对这些规则和制裁不留神。本文调查了旨在提高用户对现有森林使用规则的了解和关注度的SMS消息干预措施的影响。乌干达的RCT探索了这些信息对森林使用和法规遵守的影响。本文发现SMS消息提高了对违反规则的制裁的感知概率。然而，