are theoretically ambiguous. Increasing the relative value of agricultural land may spur deforestation, but factor market … discontinuity in eligibility for a large agricultural extension program, we find that the program reduced deforestation by 13\%. The …

tropical deforestation through agricultural conversion. This allows a formal agricultural household analysis of institutional … constraints on deforestation, and therefore a method of empirically testing whether there is any significant difference in the … that institutional constraints on land clearing affected deforestation during the pre-NAFTA era …

dramatic conclusion that shifting cultivators are causing deforestation in the forested region of Cameroon. …Shifting cultivation is often blamed as a principal cause of deforestation in tropical Africa. It is claimed that the … support two of these claims in southern Cameroon. First, using both cross-sectional and panel data, I find that there is …

deforestation, and use the program’s initial randomized rollout to explore household responses. We find that additional income … increases demand for resource-intensive goods. The corresponding production response and deforestation increase are more …

aim of this paper is to derive the implications of this insurance use on the forest cover, and thus on deforestation. The …

deforestation and use the program's initial randomized rollout to explore household responses. We find that additional income raises … consumption of land-intensive goods and increases deforestation. The observed production response and deforestation increase are …