In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects …

, continues degrading by rapid deforestation, which is expected to continue despite policies to prevent it. Current international … geographically distanced from it, lending support to international efforts to reduce deforestation in the Amazon …

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 …

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 …