{"id":2052,"date":"2008-01-01T22:30:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexpfaff.com\/?post_type=research-paper&#038;p=2052"},"modified":"2008-01-01T22:30:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T22:30:45","slug":"effects-of-poverty-on-deforestation-distinguishing-behavior-from-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2008\/01\/01\/effects-of-poverty-on-deforestation-distinguishing-behavior-from-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Poverty on Deforestation: distinguishing behavior from location"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"authors\">Alexander Pfaff, Suzi Kerr, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Leslie Lipper, G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, J. Timmins<\/div>\n<div class=\"published\">Economics of poverty, environment and natural resource use (chapter 6).<\/div>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2008\/01\/PovertyForest-06_pfaff.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/06\/pdf-icon-50x50-1.png\" alt=\"PDF link icon\" \/><\/a>We review many theoretical predictions that link poverty to deforestation and then examine poverty\u2019s net impact empirically using multiple observations of all of Costa Rica after 1960. Countrywide disaggregate (district-level) data facilitate analysis of both poverty\u2019s location and its impact on forest. If the characteristics of the places the poor live are not controlled for, then poverty\u2019s impact is confounded with differences between poorer and less poor areas and we find no significant effect of poverty. Using our data over space and time to control for effects of locations\u2019 differing characteristics, we find that the poorer are on land whose relative quality discourages forest clearing, such that with these controls the poorer areas are cleared more. The latter result suggests that poverty reduction aids the forest. For the poorest areas, this result is weaker but another effect is found: deforestation responds less to productivity, i.e., the poorest have less ability to expand or to reduce given land quality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Pfaff, Suzi Kerr, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Leslie Lipper, G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, J. Timmins Economics of poverty, environment and natural resource use (chapter 6). We review many theoretical predictions that link poverty to deforestation and then examine poverty\u2019s net impact empirically using multiple observations of all of Costa Rica after 1960. Countrywide disaggregate (district-level) data facilitate analysis of both poverty\u2019s location and its impact on forest. If the characteristics of the places the poor live are not controlled for, then poverty\u2019s impact is confounded with differences between poorer and less poor areas and we find no significant effect of poverty. Using our data over space and time to control for effects of locations\u2019 differing characteristics, we find that the poorer are on land whose relative quality discourages forest clearing, such that with these controls the poorer areas are cleared more. The latter result suggests that poverty reduction aids the forest. For the poorest areas, this result is weaker but another effect is found: deforestation responds less to productivity, i.e., the poorest have less ability to expand or to reduce given land quality. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,39,45],"tags":[79,136],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","category-costa-rica","category-land-use-climate-mitigation","category-secondary-data","tag-deforestation","tag-poverty","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Effects of Poverty on Deforestation: distinguishing behavior from location - 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