Keywords: land-use change, farm households, deforestation, meta-analysis, micro-level … countries. This is surprising, since evi-dence hints at high deforestation rates in South-East Asia due to logging activities …

In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects …

villages, we analyze the effects of 115 district splits between 2002 and 2014. Results show a 35% deforestation decline within …

are theoretically ambiguous. Increasing the relative value of agricultural land may spur deforestation, but factor market … discontinuity in eligibility for a large agricultural extension program, we find that the program reduced deforestation by 13\%. The …

This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We … combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study … deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We …

deforestation, and use the program’s initial randomized rollout to explore household responses. We find that additional income … increases demand for resource-intensive goods. The corresponding production response and deforestation increase are more …

dramatic conclusion that shifting cultivators are causing deforestation in the forested region of Cameroon. …Shifting cultivation is often blamed as a principal cause of deforestation in tropical Africa. It is claimed that the … support two of these claims in southern Cameroon. First, using both cross-sectional and panel data, I find that there is …