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Working Papers

2024

1. Preferences of Small-Scale Gold Miners related to Formalization: first steps toward sustainable mining supply chains in Colombia
   EfD Discussion Paper, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg

2023

2. Does the Selective Erasure of Protected Areas Raise Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
   (L'effacement sélectif des zones protégées augmente-t-il la déforestation en Amazonie brésilienne ?)
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Does the Selective Erasure of Protected Areas Raise Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2022

3. Comparing Protection Types in The Peruvian Amazon: Multiple-Use Protected Areas Did No Worse for Forests
   Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica
4. Ending Ecoservices Payments Does Not Crow Out Lab-in-the Field Forest Conservation
   EfD Discussion Paper, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg
5. Environmental Policies Benefit Economic Development: Implications of Economic Geography
   (Les politiques environnementales au service du développement économique: implications de la géographie économique)
   Post-Print, HAL
   See also Journal Article Environmental Policies Benefit Economic Development: Implications of Economic Geography, Annual Review of Resource Economics, Annual Reviews (2022) View citations (2) (2022)

2020

6. Effects of Ending Payments for Ecosystem Services: removal does not crowd prior conservation out
   Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE View citations (2)
7. What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas ? Evidence from across the Brazilian Amazon
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas? Evidence from across the Brazilian Amazon, Ecological Economics, Elsevier (2020) View citations (2) (2020)

2019

8. Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
9. What Drives Size Reductions for Protected Areas? Evidence about PADDD from across the Brazilian Amazon
   Working Papers of BETA, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg

2018

10. Logging Concessions, Certification & Protected Areas in the Peruvian Amazon: Forest Impacts from Combinations of Development Rights & Land-use Restrictions
    Working Papers, Banco de México View citations (2)
11. What drives the withdrawal of protected areas? Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
    Working Papers, Chaire Economie du climat
    Also in Working Papers of BETA, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg (2018)

2017

12. Logging concessions, certification and protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon: forest impacts from development rights and land-use restrictions
    Working Papers, FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists View citations (3)
13. Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
    Economics Discussion Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
    See also Journal Article Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: Learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers, Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) (2018) View citations (4) (2018)

2015

14. Deforestation spillovers from Costa Rican protected areas
    Working Papers, Universidad de Costa Rica View citations (6)

2014

15. Protected Areas' Impacts Upon Land Cover Within Mexico: the need to add politics and dynamics to static land-use economics
    2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (4)

2010

16. Bright Lines, Risk Beliefs, and Risk Avoidance: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Bangladesh
    Working Papers, Duke University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
17. Paper Tigers, Fences-&-Fines or Co-Management? Community conservation agreements in Indonesia's Lore Lindu National Park
    Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Hannover 2010, Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics

2008

18. Deforestation Impacts of Environmental Services Payments: Costa Rica’s PSA Program 2000–2005
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (10)

2004

19. Effects of Poverty on Deforestation: Distinguishing behaviour from location
    Working Papers, Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA) View citations (3)
    Also in ESA Working Papers, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) (2004)
20. Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies
    Working Papers, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research View citations (4)
    Also in Others, University Library of Munich, Germany (2004) View citations (4)
21. Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica
    ESA Working Papers, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) View citations (3)
    Also in Working Papers, Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA) (2004) View citations (13)

2003

22. Carbon Dynamics and Land-Use Choices: Building a Regional-Scale Multidisciplinary Model
    Working Papers, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research View citations (21)
    Also in Others, University Library of Munich, Germany (2003) View citations (15)

1997

23. What drives deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from satellite and socioeconomic data
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (20)
    See also Journal Article What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?: Evidence from Satellite and Socioeconomic Data, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier (1999) View citations (177) (1999)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Does the Selective Erasure of Protected Areas Raise Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
   Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023, 10, (4), 1121 - 1147 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Does the Selective Erasure of Protected Areas Raise Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?, Post-Print (2023) View citations (1) (2023)
2. Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 118, (C) View citations (8)
3. No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 120, (C) View citations (2)
4. Temporary PES do not crowd-out and may crowd-in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia
   Ecological Economics, 2023, 204, (PA) View citations (3)

2022

5. Environmental Policies Benefit Economic Development: Implications of Economic Geography
   Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2022, 14, (1), 427-446 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Environmental Policies Benefit Economic Development: Implications of Economic Geography, Post-Print (2022) (2022)
6. The Brazilian intergovernmental fiscal transfer for conservation: A successful but self-limiting incentive program
   Ecological Economics, 2022, 191, (C)

2021

7. Can we increase the impacts from payments for ecosystem services? Impact rose over time in Costa Rica, yet spatial variation indicates more potential
   Forest Policy and Economics, 2021, 132, (C) View citations (2)
8. Leaders’ distributional & efficiency effects in collective responses to policy: Lab-in-field experiments with small-scale gold miners in Colombia
   World Development, 2021, 147, (C) View citations (1)

2020

9. Evaluating REDD+ at subnational level: Amazon fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil
   Forest Policy and Economics, 2020, 116, (C) View citations (5)
10. Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate: Forest & economic impacts of the Green Municipality Program in the Brazilian Amazon
    World Development, 2020, 129, (C) View citations (7)
11. The Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Policies and Programs
    Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2020, 12, (1), 45-64 View citations (33)
12. What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas? Evidence from across the Brazilian Amazon
    Ecological Economics, 2020, 176, (C) View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas ? Evidence from across the Brazilian Amazon, Post-Print (2020) View citations (1) (2020)

2019

13. Graduated stringency within collective incentives for group environmental compliance: Building coordination in field-lab experiments with artisanal gold miners in Colombia
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 98, (C) View citations (2)
14. Impacts of protected areas vary with the level of government: Comparing avoided deforestation across agencies in the Brazilian Amazon
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, 116, (30), 14916-14925 View citations (27)

2018

15. Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: Learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
    Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), 2018, 12, 1-26 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers, Economics Discussion Papers (2017) (2017)

2017

16. Heterogeneous Local Spillovers from Protected Areas in Costa Rica
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2017, 4, (3), 795 - 820 View citations (18)
17. Increasing the impact of collective incentives in payments for ecosystem services
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017, 86, (C), 48-67 View citations (30)
18. Spillovers from Conservation Programs
    Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2017, 9, (1), 299-315 View citations (20)
19. Spillovers from targeting of incentives: Exploring responses to being excluded
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 59, (C), 87-98 View citations (8)
20. Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2017, 67, (1), 181-202 View citations (9)
21. Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children’s health across 35 developing countries
    Nature Communications, 2017, 8, (1), 1-8 View citations (2)

2015

22. Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation
    PLOS ONE, 2015, 10, (7), 1-15 View citations (29)
23. Evaluating Interactions of Forest Conservation Policies on Avoided Deforestation
    PLOS ONE, 2015, 10, (4), 1-16 View citations (29)
24. Framed field experiment on resource scarcity & extraction: Path-dependent generosity within sequential water appropriation
    Ecological Economics, 2015, 120, (C), 416-429 View citations (9)

2014

25. Evolution of households' responses to the groundwater arsenic crisis in Bangladesh: information on environmental health risks can have increasing behavioral impact over time
    Environment and Development Economics, 2014, 19, (5), 631-647 View citations (8)
26. Governance, Location and Avoided Deforestation from Protected Areas: Greater Restrictions Can Have Lower Impact, Due to Differences in Location
    World Development, 2014, 55, (C), 7-20 View citations (73)

2013

27. Ecopayments and Deforestation in Costa Rica: A Nationwide Analysis of PSA’s Initial Years
    Land Economics, 2013, 89, (3) View citations (50)
28. Impact of a randomized controlled trial in arsenic risk communication on household water-source choices in Bangladesh
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2013, 65, (2), 225-240 View citations (32)
29. Improving stove evaluation using survey data: Who received which intervention matters
    Ecological Economics, 2013, 93, (C), 301-312 View citations (5)
30. On the Endogeneity of Resource Co-management: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
    Land Economics, 2013, 89, (2) View citations (5)
31. Realistic REDD: Improving the Forest Impacts of Domestic Policies in Different Settings
    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2013, 7, (1), 114-135 View citations (20)

2012

32. Contagious development: Neighbor interactions in deforestation
    Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97, (2), 427-436 View citations (56)
33. Efficiency and equity in negotiated resource transfers: Contributions and limitations of trust with limited contracts
    Ecological Economics, 2012, 74, (C), 55-63 View citations (3)
34. Protecting forests, biodiversity, and the climate: predicting policy impact to improve policy choice
    Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2012, 28, (1), 164-179 View citations (21)
35. The Advantage of Resource Queues over Spot Resource Markets: Decision Coordination in Experiments under Resource Uncertainty
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2012, 94, (5), 1136-1153

2011

36. Can Environmental Insurance Succeed Where Other Strategies Fail? The Case of Underground Storage Tanks
    Risk Analysis, 2011, 31, (1), 12-24 View citations (7)

2010

37. Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change
    PLOS Biology, 2010, 8, (3), 1-4 View citations (18)

2009

38. Behavior, Environment, and Health in Developing Countries: Evaluation and Valuation
    Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2009, 1, (1), 183-217 View citations (55)
39. Park Location Affects Forest Protection: Land Characteristics Cause Differences in Park Impacts across Costa Rica
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2009, 9, (2), 26 View citations (71)

2008

40. Erratum to "Can information alone change behavior? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh" [Journal of Development Economics 84 (2007) 731-754]
    Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 85, (1-2), 349-347

2007

41. Can information alone change behavior? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh
    Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84, (2), 731-754 View citations (134)
42. ROAD INVESTMENTS, SPATIAL SPILLOVERS, AND DEFORESTATION IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON*
    Journal of Regional Science, 2007, 47, (1), 109-123 View citations (55)

2004

43. Aid, economic growth and environmental sustainability: rich-poor interactions and environmental choices in developing countries
    International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2004, 4, (1/2/3), 139-159
44. Big field, small potatoes: An empirical assessment of EPA's self-audit policy
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004, 23, (3), 415-432 View citations (28)
45. Deforestation pressure and biological reserve planning: a conceptual approach and an illustrative application for Costa Rica
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2004, 26, (2), 237-254 View citations (19)
46. Endowments, preferences, technologies and abatement: growth-environment microfoundations
    International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2004, 4, (4), 209-228 View citations (4)
47. Household Production and Environmental Kuznets Curves – Examining the Desirability and Feasibility of Substitution
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2004, 27, (2), 187-200 View citations (21)
48. To err on humans is not benign: Incentives for adoption of medical error-reporting systems
    Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23, (5), 935-949

2000

49. Environmental Self-Auditing: Setting the Proper Incentives for Discovery and Correction of Environmental Harm
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2000, 16, (1), 189-208 View citations (27)
50. The Kyoto protocol and payments for tropical forest:: An interdisciplinary method for estimating carbon-offset supply and increasing the feasibility of a carbon market under the CDM
    Ecological Economics, 2000, 35, (2), 203-221 View citations (19)

1999

51. What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?: Evidence from Satellite and Socioeconomic Data
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1999, 37, (1), 26-43 View citations (177)
    See also Working Paper What drives deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from satellite and socioeconomic data, Policy Research Working Paper Series (1997) View citations (20) (1997)
52. Who benefits from climate forecasts?
    Nature, 1999, 397, (6721), 645-646 View citations (22)

1994

53. Welfare costs and rent premia when quotas are not transferable
    European Economic Review, 1994, 38, (3-4), 577-585
    See also Chapter Welfare costs and rent premia when quotas are not transferable, World Scientific Book Chapters, 2017, 487-495 (2017) (2017)

Chapters

2017

1. Welfare costs and rent premia when quotas are not transferable
   Chapter 21 in Trade Policies for Development and Transition, 2017, pp 487-495
   See also Journal Article Welfare costs and rent premia when quotas are not transferable, Elsevier (1994) (1994)