FERES, José Gustavo; COMBES, Jean-Louis; ARAUJO, Claudio - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2014
This paper aims at assessing the determinants of Amazon deforestation, with an emphasis on the role played by off-farm income. We first present a microeconomic model which relates off-farm income to deforestation patterns. We then test the empirical implications by using data on the 2006...