도리스 살세도의 조각·설치(1987~2007) 연구 : 트라우마의 재현 방식과 그 정치적 함의

박지현 홍익대학교 대학원 2021 국내석사

This study analyzes early sculpture works done in Colombia by Doris Salcedo, currently based in Bogotá, Colombia, and her large-scale installations in various countries around the world. It appraises the representation strategies and political implications presented by Salcedo to show the trauma of victims political violence, oppression and discrimination and to reveal the core of the violence. Even now, countless people in many countries around the world are still constantly suffering from various kinds of political violence, oppression and its traumatic aftermath. However, discourse and media have limitations of making victims invisible by narrating the existence of victims and the history of suffering in a linear structure and representing victims with images of dead bodies. In this context, Salcedo's representation strategy is significant in that she considers the theme of political violence and oppression based on victims’ sentiment and psychology. She reveals the trauma of their pain, fear and loss, which was not seen by discourse and the media, without any specific visual images related to the violence and its victims. The brutal civil war and political violence event in Colombia, sparked by the conflict between the two parties in the mid-nineteenth century, are still ongoing. This is the tragic socio-political background of Colombia that Salcedo had to go through since her birth, and it has made her constantly interested in victims’ collapsed everyday life littered by anxiety and fear, and ultimately laid the foundation for her research of how their trauma could be represented as art. Salcedo resisted images of violence represented by Colombian artists at that time and the images of dead bodies shown by the media in the 1990s. She then established her own visual language and direction of political art for artistic images that can reveal the profound and complex dimensions of violence itself based on the influence of Beatriz González, Joseph Beuys, and Marcel Duchamp on socio-political art concepts and forms. Based on victims’ empirical testimony about traumatic events, Salcedo transforms their private everyday objects into unfamiliar figures as a basic form of early sculptures, and extends them into large-scale installations. This strategy evokes familiar but unfamiliar sense and draws a careful attention and consideration towards violent events. This reveals the core of a traumatic event, which is fundamentally impossible to represent, through the process of making the audiences find out the truth behind the event and its trace on their own. At this point, the concept of ‘fiction’ by a political philosopher Jacques Ranciére, who reconsidered the concept of ‘image’ and ‘representation’ and presented a new strategy of representation and its political possibility for ‘unrepresentability’ like trauma, is significant. Through her two works, <Atrabiliarios> and <Noviembre 6 y 7>, Salcedo demonstrates ‘fiction’ that brings actual reality to our daily lives by constructing objects with traces of victims to trigger their traumatic memories. The structure of common sense about reality formed through media is reconstituted ‘here and now’. ‘Fiction’, an act of reconstructing reality, is a representation strategy of trauma devised by Salcedo and the core of the unique political intention of her art, which is “metapolitics”. Salcedo does not call for any sense or action to change reality through art. The core of her art’s political intention does not lies in the political material or content of a work, but in the form of artwork that can refabricate our senses and perceptual structures in relation to a certain event or object. The ‘fiction’ as a new strategy of representation in Salcedo’s artwork and her consideration of its political implication opens up the possibility that Doris Salcedo as a ‘political artist’ could be reexamined. 본 논문은 콜롬비아 보고타를 기반으로 활동하고 있는 도리스 살세도(Doris Salcedo, 1958~)가 콜롬비아에서 진행한 초 기 조각 작업과 전 세계 다양한 나라들에서 선보인 대규모 설치 작업을 분석한다. 이를 통해 살세도가 정치적 폭력과 억압, 그리고 차별로 인한 희생자들의 트라우마와 폭력 사건의 핵심을 드러내기 위해 고안한 전략적 재현 방식의 특징 및 효과와 그것의 정치적 함의를 살펴본다. 지금도 전 세계 여러 국가에서는 수많은 사람이 다양한 종류의 정치적 폭력 및 억압과 그것이 가져오는 트라우마적 여파로 끊임없이 고통을 받고 있다. 그러나 그들의 존재와 고통의 역사를 선형적인 구조로 서술하는 담론과 죽음의 이미지로 재현하는 미디어는 여전히 그들을 비가시적인 존재로 머물게 하는 한계를 지니고 있다. 바로 이러한 맥락에서, 폭력과 억압이라는 소재를 희생자들의 정서 및 심리적 차원에서부터 고찰하는 살세도의 재현 방식이 유의미하게 자리한다. 살세도는 폭력 사건 및 그 희생자들과 관련된 어떤 구체적인 시각적 이미지도 없이 담론과 미디어에 의해 보이지 않았던 그들의 고통과 공포 그리고 상실의 트라우마를 드러낸다. 19세기 중반, 양당 간의 갈등으로부터 시작된 콜롬비아에서의 잔혹한 내전과 정치적 폭력 사태는 현재 지금도 진행 중이다. 이는 살세도가 태어나서부터 겪어야만 했던 콜롬비아의 비극적인 사회· 정치적 배경으로, 불안과 두려움으로 점철된 일상을 살아가는 희생자들의 붕괴된 삶에 끊임없이 관심을 갖게 했으며, 궁극적으로는 그들의 트라우마가 어떻게 예술로서 재현될 수 있는가에 대한 고찰의 토대가 되었다. 살세도는 그 당시 콜롬비아 작가들에 의해 제작되었던 폭력의 이미지들과 1990년대 언론 매체가 보여주는 시체 이미지들에 저항하며, 베아트리스 곤잘레스(Beatriz González)와 요셉 보이스(Joseph Beuys), 그리고 마르셀 뒤샹(Marcel Duchamp)으로부터 영향을 받은 사회· 정치적 예술 개념과 형식을 토대로 폭력 그 자체가 지닌 심오하고 복잡한 차원을 보여줄 수 있는 예술 이미지에 대한 자신만의 시각 언어와 정치적 예술의 방향성을 정립한다. 살세도는 트라우마적 사건에 대한 희생자들의 경험적 증언을 토대로 그들의 사적인 일상 오브제를 낯선 형태로 변형시키는 방식을 초기 조각 작업의 기본 형식으로 삼고, 이를 대규모 설치 작업으로까지 확장하여 보여준다. 친숙하지만 어떤 낯선 감각을 불러일으키는 전략은 폭력 사건에 대해 주의하는 시선과 고찰을 만들어낸다. 이는 사건의 배후와 그것이 남긴 흔적에 대해 관객 스스로 밝혀내도록 하는 과정을 통해 근본적으로 재현이 불가능한 트라우마적 사건의 핵심을 드러낸다. 바로 이 지점에서 ‘이미지’와 ‘재현’이라는 개념 자체를 재고찰하며, 트라우마와 같이 ‘재현 불가능한 것’에 대해 새로운 재현 방식과 그것이 지닌 정치적 가능성을 제시한 정치 철학자 자크 랑시에르(Jacques Ranciére)의 ‘허구(fiction)’ 개념이 유의미하게 다가온다. 살세도는 <아트라빌리아리오스 (Atrabiliarios)>와 <11월 6일과 7일 (Noviembre 6 y 7)>이라는 두 작업에서 희생자들의 흔적이 담긴 오브제를 그들의 트라우마적 기억을 작동시키는 장치로 구축함으로써 우리의 일상 현실에 진짜 실재를 불러오는 ‘허구’를 보여준다. 미디어를 통해 형성된 실재에 대한 우리의 공통 감각의 구조를 ‘지금 여기’에서 새롭게 재구성하는 것이다. 실재를 재구성하는 행위인 ‘허구’는 살세도가 고안한 트라우마의 재현 방식이자 그녀의 예술에서 나타나는 고유한 정치성 즉, “메타정치”의 핵심이다. 살세도는 예술을 통해 현실을 변화시키기 위한 어떤 의식이나 행위를 촉구하지 않는다. 그녀의 예술이 지닌 정치성의 핵심은 작업이 다루는 정치적 소재나 내용이 아닌 특정한 사건이나 사물에 대한 우리의 감각과 지각 방식의 구조를 다시 직조하는 작업의 형식에 있다. 살세도의 작업에서 나타나는 새로운 재현 방식으로서의 ‘허구’와 그 정치적 함의에 대한 고찰은 ‘정치적 예술가’로서의 도리스 살세도가 새롭게 재조명될 수 있는 가능성을 열어준다.

Fate of antibiotic resistance in carcass landfill leachate : biological and physicochemical treatment

Salcedo, Dennis Espineli Korea University 2017 국내박사

This study aimed to investigate and understand the behavior of leachate and the fate of its antibiotic resistance. A synthetic leachate was formulated and monitored for more than 2 years. This is done to simulate the fate of antibiotic resistance in leachate from anaerobic carcass landfill site. Three anaerobic reactors were set-up. Initially, Escherichia coli DH5α with tetracycline resistance pB10 plasmid was inoculated in nutrient rich anaerobic reactors. The fate of tetracycline-resistant bacteria (TRB) was tracked by analysis using culture-based method, EC50 (half maximal effective concentration), and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Though the EC50 profile looks maintained, values during the second year shows lower standard deviation. Interestingly, pB10 plasmid has the same pattern. While the two parameters agreed with each other, the TRB time profile decreased after 300 days or almost one year. At the end of experiment, the tetracycline resistance microbial communities were investigated by 16s RNA gene-based pyro sequencing. The results of this study indicated that leachate with high organic strength in anaerobic conditions could be an antibiotic resistant point source in several year periods. To simulate the treatment of leachate, the effects of the solids retention time (SRT), using sequencing batch reactors (SBRs), was investigated. This is done to see the fate of antibiotic resistance in the leachate sample. SRTs were varied to see its influence on antibiotic resistance. Escherichia coli DH5a was used as the representative tetracycline-resistant bacteria with multiple antibiotic-resistant genes encoded in plasmid pB10. SRT contributed to an increase in antibiotic resistance in SBR C (SRT 25 days) with TRB values up to 1.25 x 107 CFU mL-1 which is one log higher than the influent. Microbial community analysis of the DNA samples from effluent of SBR C showed four major phyla: Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria under which are ecologically-important microbial species. It was shown that antibiotic resistance genes cannot be eliminated during treatment of synthetic carcass leachate in a lab-scale sequencing batch reactor. Lastly, the fate of antibiotic resistance in an effluent after ozone disinfection was investigated by comparing the ARB and ARG removal efficiencies of ozonation using pure culture in buffer and using E. coli pB10 in wastewater samples. Based on the results, ozonation on E. coli K-12, as a representative of non-ARB, showed higher removal efficiencies than the samples inoculated with antibiotic-resistant E. coli. Another aspect of this study is monitoring the fate of antibiotic resistance in the wastewater effluent. It was found out that ARB and ARGs still perpetuated in the last stage of effluent disinfection showing that treatment in WWTPs is not effective in eliminating the antibiotic resistance.

(The) effects of antibiotics on the biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance gene transfer

Salcedo, Dennis Espineli Graduate School, Korea University 2014 국내석사

토마스 하디의 『성난 군중으로부터 멀리』와 케리마 폴로탄-투베라의 『적의 손』의 도덕적 의미 비교 연구

Imelda Salcedo Marquez 위덕대학교 대학원 2011 국내석사

토마스 하디의 『성난 군중으로부터 멀리』와 케리마 폴로탄-투베라의 『적의 손』의 도덕적 의미 비교 연구 문학은 아이디어, 감정, 경험, 그리고 인류의 영적 관심을 펼치는 만능 열쇠이다. 문학을 통해서 인간은 인간의 사상을 구체적으로 표현할 수 있게 된다. 그리고 인간의 실제 생활을 보여주는 문학 장르 중 하나가 바로 소설이다. 소설처럼, 인간의 삶은 각 장으로 나뉘며, 각 장은 인간 존재의 명확한 의미와 목적을 제시하는 다양한 사건들로 이루어져 있다. 인생은 진정한 사랑과 사랑 받음을 경험하기 위한 지속적인 탐구이다. 그러나 그 경험은 거친 경험일 수 밖에 없어서 누구나 다 사랑을 하면서 고통을 겪게 된다. 인생은 그 자체의 특별한 가치를 추구하고, 그 누군가에게 “가치”있게 됨으로써 완성이 된다. 삶은 누군가가 바라는 것을 단순히 충족시키거나 자신의 사회 내에서 자신의 역할을 구현하는 것으로 성취되는 것이 아니라 인간의 고유한 세계 속에 존재하는 가장 강력한 감정, 즉 “사랑”이라 불리는 실체를 구현해야 성취되는 것이다. 본 연구는 토마스 하디의 『성난 군중으로부터 멀리』와 케리마 폴로탄-투베라의 『적의 손』의 도덕적 의미를 비교 연구한 것이다. 묘사와 분석을 통하여, 허구의 요소로서 소설, 구성, 배경, 등장인물, 그리고 관점 등을 비교 연구하였다. 이 연구 속에는 형식적, 도덕적, 인간적 그리고 심리적인 분석 방법을 적용하였다. 본 연구의 결과로 밝힌 것은 1. 두 작가 모두 플래쉬백, 의식의 흐름, 병치, 복선, 상징주의 등의 기법을 활용하였다. 그리고 하디의 소설에 등장하는 인물들은 운명의 꼭두각시이고 투베라의 인물들은 과거의 희생자들이다. 2. 두 작가 모두 등장인물들의 부당한 행동에 따른 위험한 결과를 제시함으로써 도덕적 가치를 고양할 수 있었다. 3. 투베라가 하디보다 도덕적 가치를 창조적으로 더 잘 표현하였다. 4. 두 작품의 공통된 요소는 사랑이다. 그리고 본 연구의 결과로 다음과 같이 결론을 내릴 수 있다: 1. 하디와 투베라는 각기 다른 방식으로 소설을 전개하였다. 2. 두 작가의 문학적 기법 또한 상이하다. 3. 각기 다른 작가들에게서도 통일된 요소를 찾아낼 수 있다.

Foreign exchange crisis in Latin American markets : comparison before and after with OECD countries

Kimberly Stephany, Salcedo Contreras 한양대학교 대학원 2020 국내석사

This paper describes a macroeconomic analysis for some countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela, between 1980 to 2015, when various financial and banking crisis had happened. After a comparison with OECD members that not suffered these problems, it is important to identify the causes and consequences of the exchange and banking crisis, before and after that it happened. Also, a review and contrast are performing to study the authorities' reactions at each of those moments. A simple method was followed based on three stages: First, was the search and review of chosen articles; then the study a numeric data gathering and reports to later lead at the final step: the execution of an analytical approach, supported on indicators of the economic behavior. In the end, a series of conclusions are listed that can help to rethink the strength and weaknesses sights that governments in North and South America - Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela - might wish to have, each time that designing economic politics. Keywords: Exchange Crisis, Foreign exchange reserves, Trade shocks, Banking shocks, Macroeconomic policies, Latin America, OECD. 본 논문은 각종 금융 및 금융 위기가 발생한 1980-2015년의 아르헨티나, 브라질, 멕시코, 우루과이, 베네수엘라 등 일부 국가의 거시경제 분석을 설명한다. 이런 문제를 겪지 않은 OECD 회원국들과 비교한 뒤 외환위기의 원인과 결과를 파악하는 것이 중요하다. 또한, 검토와 대조를 통해 각 순간의 당국의 반응을 연구한다. 세 가지 단계를 바탕으로 간단한 방법이 뒤따른다: 첫째, 선택된 기사를 검색하고 검토한다. 둘째, 숫자 데이터 수집과 마지막 단계인 분석적 접근법 후 실행한다. 경제 행동 지표를 뒷받침하는 마지막 단계에서의 보고였다. 마지막으로, 경제 정책을 설계할 때마다, 북미와 남아메리카의 정부가 취하고자 하는 강점과 약점에 대해 다시 생각해보는데 도움이 될 수 있는 일련의 결론들이 열거된다. 키워드: 외환 위기, 외환 보유고, 무역 충격, 은행 충격, 거시 경제 정책, 중남

Off-line Insulation Testing for DFIG Rotor Winding for Wind Energy Applications

SALCEDO BOLANOS ADRIAN JOSE 고려대학교 대학원 2023 국내석사

In recent times, there has been a significant rise in the use of inverter-operated electrical machines, especially doubly-fed inverter generators for wind energy applications However, studies have shown that rotor insulation deterioration is one of the major caus of failure and downtime in wind power generation. Hence, this paper introduces a nove approach for monitoring the condition of rotor-ground insulation for doubly-fed inverte machines. Moreover, due to the limited accessibility of these kind of power plants, i highly desirable to implement a remote and automated insulation testing. The propose method utilizes commonly used sensors usually employed for differential protectio and is simple in its application. It can be implemented before/after the motor is started/stopped and can screen out severe insulation deterioration preventing machine failure The method has been verified experimentally on a 440 V, 5.5 kW induction machine

Essays in development economics

Salcedo, Alejandrina Stanford University 2009 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

This dissertation is composed of three chapters. The first two study topics related to higher education. Chapter one analyzes the relative advantages of different entry systems to university, and chapter two investigates the effects on academic outcomes of attending a higher quality campus at the college level. The third chapter examines household size choice. In the first chapter, "Entry Systems to University: Evidence on the Trade-offs of Early Selection versus Open Admission", I analyze the relative advantages between the two main entry systems to university in the world. In one, only those students who attended specific high schools are eligible to apply to college (early selection). In the second, all high school graduates can apply (open admission). I use the case of UNAM, a large public university in Mexico, where the two systems exist simultaneously to study the advantages of each of the two channels. UNAM runs a system of high schools (early selection), but it also admits students from other schools (open admission). I estimate whether attending a UNAM high school increases the probability of being a successful student in university. I identify this causal effect using a student strike that displaced students from one channel into the other. Results indicate that attending a UNAM high school reduces the probability of dropping out between the first and second year of college from 9 to 7 percent. Additionally, I show that some students from non-UNAM high schools have higher expected graduation probabilities than some students from UNAM high schools. Thus, the University benefits from admitting students who were not tracked into their schools. Finally, I use an analytical framework to test whether UNAM is selecting students from the two channels in a way that maximizes expected graduation rates. Results suggest that selection is optimal, given the particular constraints of the admissions process. The second chapter, "The Effect of College Quality on Academic Performance. Evidence from Mexico", is a joint project with Rodrigo Barros. We estimate the effects of attending a higher quality campus at the college level on academic outcomes using the case of UNAM. Incoming students from high schools run by the University are allocated to majors and campuses in UNAM using a mechanism that is based on a score. The score depends on the student's academic performance in high school, and the mechanism gives priority to students with higher scores. The allocation process generates a series of discontinuities where students with similar transition scores are assigned to different campuses due to capacity constraints. This allows us to use a regression discontinuity methodology. We find that attending the main campus rather than a secondary one significantly improves peer characteristics. That is, classmates of students in the main campus come from a better socioeconomic environment and have a better academic background. However, attending a higher quality campus does not significantly affect graduation probabilities or GPA, it increases the number of failed and dropped courses, and deteriorates the ranking by GPA of a student in her class. A possible interpretation is that other variables, like the student's ranking in the class, counteract the positive peer characteristics. Finally, the third chapter, "Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size", is a joint project with Todd Schoellman and Michele Tertilt. This study is motivated by the empirical fact that the average American today lives in a household of three people, compared to six in 1850. We propose a mechanism based on the demand for privacy as an explanation for part of this reduction in household size. We hypothesize that as people get richer, they consume a lower proportion of public goods, which can be shared among all household members, relative to private goods, which cannot be shared. This reduces the economies of scale of living with other people, and endogenously decreases the optimal household size. We present a model that formalizes this idea and calibrate it to fit facts about the relationship between household size, consumption patterns, and income in a cross-section at the end of the 20th Century. We project the model back to 1850 by modifying income to its actual level at that point it time. The results indicate that our proposed mechanism can account for 37% of the difference in the number of adults in the household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16% of the decline in children.

Essays in Public Policies and Health Economics

Salcedo Monroy, Dario Jose Indiana University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 2025 해외박사(DDOD)

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This dissertation encompasses three chapters that are centered around the relationship between different transformative public policies and their - often unintended - impact on healthcare and socioeconomic conditions, both in the U.S. and internationally. All three articles use detailed administrative and restricted-use data and employ rigorous identification strategies to answer the questions of interest. The major interventions analyzed cover in-kind transfers in the form of land restitution, school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, and access to healthcare when insurance companies are terminated.Chapter 1 explores the direct and indirect effects of the land restitution policy in Colombia on mental health conditions and wellbeing. The indirect effects (spillovers) on depression, anxiety and substance abuse are estimated at the municipality level exploiting the comprehensive intervention from the government that protects the land of victims who have been displaced and dispossessed by illegal armed groups in a difference-in-differences strategy. I show that the restoration of property rights is associated with a reduction in overall mental health conditions. A decrease in conflict, more productive investment, and coverage of the health system suggest that the interventions to secure property rights boost the trust and expectations of citizens during times of war. The direct effects take advantage of the legal sentences that restitution judges issue and restore property rights at the individual/household level. Using administrative data, I examine how relying on welfare, poverty and healthcare change for beneficiaries who have enjoyed their returned property the longest.Chapter 2, joint with Sumedha Gupta and Kosali Simon, looks at how parental mental health in the US was disrupted once schools closed during the early and later phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a large medical claims dataset that covers around 20% of the commercially insured population nationwide, leveraging variation from cohorts of parents more and less exposed to the pandemic and computing the relative change in mobility to schools (elementary, middle and high) at the zip code level, we find an increase in maternal and paternal antidepressant use in zip codes with above median school closures. The positive effect on the demand for anti-depressant prescriptions is persistent over time after Fall 2020, even as in-person schooling resumed in 2021. We do not see changes in the demand for therapy, worsened conditions for mothers with previous antidepressant use or effects on mothers of middle/high school-aged children, but we do find positive effects from elementary school closures, which is a sign of how women during this economic downturn bore a disproportionate burden with increased housework and care hours, especially when it came to young children. Overall, the results suggest that the school system plays an important role in maintaining population mental well-being and in helping families cope with stress.Chapter 3 investigates the association between the termination of the largest health insurance company in Colombia, SaludCoop, and access to mental health services. After years of investigations and poor management, the government decided to terminate SaludCoop due to the mishandling of health resources by its board of directors. The government decided then to transfer the nearly 5 million SaludCoop beneficiaries (10% of the national covered population) to a smaller insurer called Cafesalud, which by that time had less than 5% of the market. I use several administrative data sources that record every contact that citizens have with the healthcare system, in addition to vital statistics, and leverage variation from the temporal and geographical presence of the insurer in a difference-in-differences empirical strategy. I find a decrease in the overall utilization of mental health services and consultations once SaludCoop exits the insurer market, at the same time that mortality linked to alcohol increases. I find these effects are persistent over time and are likely explained by an increase in the congestion of the health system, as the remaining insurers experienced greater demand from beneficiaries.

An Insect Wing: Expansion, Hemodynamics, and Venation Patterns

Salcedo, Mary Kathleen Harvard University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 2019 해외박사(DDOD)

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Groundwater games: Users' behavior in common-pool resource economic laboratory and field experiments

Salcedo Du Bois, Rodrigo The Pennsylvania State University 2014 해외박사(DDOD)

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Groundwater currently provides 30 percent of freshwater in the world, and it is estimated that it potentially constitutes approximately 89 percent of the world's fresh water. Nevertheless, extensive extraction of groundwater in some areas is leading to aquifer depletion. Groundwater is considered, in some situations, a common-pool resource (CPR) with extremely high use value. Economists and political scientists have devoted a great amount of effort to understand how common pool resources are managed, as well as the characteristics of institutions that emerge in order to deal with the use and distribution of CPR. The characteristics of a CPR and how agents interact in their use are important for the success and sustainability of CPR-dependent communities. This dissertation will analyze the behavior and decision rules of CPR users in an experimental context. We discuss the results from laboratory and field experiments framed as a dynamic groundwater game in which users pump water from a shared resource, and the actions of users in one period affect resource availability and extraction costs of everyone in the next period. This is an innovative design, since most of previous studies do not consider the groundwater problem in experimental settings, and do not conduct a groundwater experiment with actual groundwater users. The objectives of this research are twofold. In the first part of the dissertation, I assess the presence of strategic behavior when participants have access to an efficient technology that yields both private and public benefits to CPR users. This situation might discourage users from adopting the new technology, which results in free-riding. In this part of the dissertation, I am also concerned about the effectiveness of group arrangements to improve water usage and to guarantee appropriation levels that yield a socially-desirable economic outcome. Given the experimental design, I can partially address both learning effects during the game and unobserved heterogeneity of participants, in order to obtain a precise estimation of the impact of the treatments. Finally, I also analyze the factors that affect technology adoption and deviation from agreed water usage. In the second part of the dissertation, I address the degree of heterogeneity in actions of participants, and aim to identify different types of behavior among participants in the use of the shared resource . Using a methodology proposed by Geweke and Keane (2000) and Houser et al. (2004), I can relax the rational expectations assumption in the dynamic choice problem, and identify different behaviors in the population. Based on the decisions that participants make during the experiment, I can identify and cluster parameters that define the future function of the dynamic choice problem in different "types" or groups of participants, with these groups endogenously created. I propose a flexible mixed multinomial discrete choice model that allows parameters to be drawn from a discrete mixture of distributions. In order to estimate the parameters and group membership probabilities, Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques are used. These methods allow the estimation of highly dimensional discrete choice problems and adds flexibility to estimation and the clustering process.