political discourses affect deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon region. Relying on novel data from Twitter, we present … the first causal evidence of political discourse on deforestation. Our analysis relies on municipal level monthly panel …

The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require … deforestation. This indirect land-use effect is shown to be a dynamic process materializing over 10 to 15 years. …

The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require … deforestation. This indirect land-use effect is shown to be a dynamic process materializing over 10 to 15 years. …

More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow … rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence … of a positive relation between cattle intensification and deforestation (‘rebound effect’). The reduced-form model I …

More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow … rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence … of a positive relation between cattle intensification and deforestation (‘rebound effect'). The reduced-form model I …

A mix of public policy and market interventions in the mid-2000s led to historic reductions in deforestation in the …-rich countries. We construct a ten-year panel dataset for agriculture and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2004-2014), and use … two complementary difference-in-difference strategies to estimate the causal effect of one of Brazil's flagship anti-deforestation …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between deforestation and violence using annual municipal level data for … attempts) and deforestation are significant predictors of each other in the same municipality and year. Our results are robust …