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 …

deforestation by 41% compared to the traditional contract. This extra conservation occurs despite the full-enrollment provision …

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 …