deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world's most extensive rainforest, where Brazil's federal government issued a 'Priority …, we first estimate the causal impact of the Priority List on deforestation using 'changes-in-changes' (Athey and Imbens …, 2006), a flexible treatment effects estimation method, finding that it reduced deforestation by 40 percent and cut …

drastic switches at tipping points, in response to changes in rainfall patterns and other drivers. Deforestation cost studies … the true social cost of deforestation. We explore the implications of a forest-savanna critical transition and propose an … for ecosystem services. We apply this framework to the calculation of the social cost of deforestation of the Amazon …

which received the program for two years. The PES program reduced deforestation and forest degradation: Tree cover, measured …

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic … political economy of deforestation. They are consistent with the literature on (under) provision of public goods and social … decentralisation can reduce deforestation by delegating powers to more homogeneous communities …

Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world … incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to understanding tropical deforestation … associated with increased deforestation and with lower prices in local wood markets, consistent with a model of Cournot …

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 … classic models of natural resource extraction. Extending this approach to incorporate features that characterize deforestation …