Group Size and Collective Action

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Reputation, Gossip, and Human Cooperation (2016, background): “Some field evidence shows that medium-sized groups are more likely to provide third-party monitoring and induce higher contributions than smaller groups (Agrawal & Goyal, 2001).”
Evaluating Forest Management in Nepal: Views across Space and Time (2005, result): “Thus, our findings agree with those of Agrawal (2000), Agrawal and Goyal (2001), and Varughese (2000) in the western and central Himalayas, where larger forest groups appear to be more successful at managing forests, due in large part to the fact that more people are involved in management and…”
In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action (2004, unknown): “A series of articles about forest councils in Kumaon, India measures collective action in terms of resource mobilisation as the monetary value of the contribution per household, the group budget for protection, or the number of months each community was able to pay the guard (Agrawal, 2000; Agrawal ”