This paper develops a theoretical as well as an empirical model of deforestation and economic development in a tropical … paper concludes that subsidized credit, while certainly causing deforestation, is so beneficial for economic growth that the …

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 …

This paper provides an estimate of the amount of carbon emissions that resulted from large scale deforestation in the … region. On average, there was generated GDP of approximately $44 per ton carbon emítted. -- Amazon deforestation ; carbon …

This paper studies the long-run relationship between historical indigenous presence and modern tropical deforestation … extinct, and the likely underlying extinction causes. We find that modern deforestation is substantially higher in the …, we find no long-term relationship between non-extinct indigenous groups and modern deforestation. These findings remain …

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

This paper investigates the apparent paradox of the mid 2000’s sharp reduction in the deforestation of the Brazilian … estimate the effects of well-known drivers in the deforestation process, such as cattle herd and soybean crops, as well as the … effect of the conservation policy. The results suggest that the policy not only had a direct effect of reducing deforestation …

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 …