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 …

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates … others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and …

The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest and an important constituent of the global biosphere …, continues degrading by rapid deforestation, which is expected to continue despite policies to prevent it. Current international … funding to protect the Amazon rainforest focuses on benefits from reduced carbon emissions. This paper examines an additional …