Balboni, Clare A.; Berman, Aaron; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the economics of deforestation in the tropics. This combination of theory and empirics provides insights not only into the …Two factors have elevated recent academic and policy interest in tropical deforestation: first, the realization that it … forest loss at a fine spatial resolution across the globe. We then develop a simple benchmark model of deforestation based on …