consequences of a major shift in the production of coca paste from Peru and Bolivia to Colombia, where most coca leaf is now … Colombia, provided an exogenous boost in the demand for Colombian coca leaf. Our analysis shows this shift generated economic …

diverted to these very groups. We examine how U.S. military aid affects political violence in Colombia. We exploit the …

the importance of disentangling pollution from economic activities that drive it …

impact throughout the basin, and those that are the most vulnerable to shocks caused by remote deforestation. On average, the …

history of the US and Colombia …

study one such norm the "don't be a toad" norm, as it is referred to in Colombia that tells people to mind their own …

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 …

Because of difficulties measuring pollution, many prior papers suggest a subsidy to some observable method of reducing … pollution. We take three papers from the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management as examples, and we extend them to … increases production and thus could increase total pollution. An additional output tax offsets this increase in production …

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 …