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 …

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 …

cattle raising activities in the transition towards a lowcarbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The next … section presents long run historical perspectives on the development of cattle raising in Brazil. The third section analyzes … the patterns of growth of cattle raising in Brazil based upon municipal panel data of Agricultural Census from 1975 to …

first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher …

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 …

cattle raising activities in the transition toward a low-carbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The first … section poses the problem. The second presents long run historical perspectives on the development of cattle raising in Brazil …. The third section analyzes the patterns of growth of cattle raising in Brazil based upon municipal panel data of …

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 … sugarcane expansion in Brazil’s state of São Paulo, on forest conversion decisions in the country’s Amazon region. Further, it …

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 …

two complementary difference-in-difference strategies to estimate the causal effect of one of Brazil's flagship anti-deforestation …A mix of public policy and market interventions in the mid-2000s led to historic reductions in deforestation in the … understood, though evidence is sorely needed given the economic importance of agriculture in Brazil and many other forest …

development – prior roads and prior deforestation – and, further, in a pattern that suggests a potential synergy for roads between … low prior roads and deforestation. For each setting, census-tract observations are numerous. Results confirm predictions …