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Do Payments for Environmental Services Affect Forest Cover? A Farm-Level Evaluation from Costa Rica
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Payments for environmental services (PES) are popular despite little empirical evidence of their effectiveness. We estimate the impact of PES on forest cover in a region known for exemplary implementation of one of the best-known and longest-lived PES programs. Our evaluation design combines sampling that incorporates prematching, data from remote sensing and household surveys, and empirical methods that include partial identification with weak assumptions, difference-in-differences matching estimators, and tests of sensitivity to unobservable heterogeneity. PES in our study site increased participating farm forest cover by about 11% to 17% of the mean area under PES contract over eight years. (JEL Q57, Q58)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Arriagada, R. A., Ferraro, P. J., Sills, E. O., Pattanayak, S. K., & Cordero-Sancho, S.
- Venue
- Land Economics
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 2012-02-21
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 382-399
- ISSN
- 0023-7639 (ISSN-L)
- 1543-8325
- OpenAlex
- W2098222681
- Cited by
- 287
- References
- 53
- FWCI
- 21.90
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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