{"id":3544,"date":"2023-01-01T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T20:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:29:34","slug":"temporary-pes-do-not-crowd-out-and-may-crowd-in-lab-in-the-field-forest-conservation-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2023\/01\/01\/temporary-pes-do-not-crowd-out-and-may-crowd-in-lab-in-the-field-forest-conservation-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"authors\">Lina Moros, Maria Alejandra Velez, Daniela Quintero, Danny Tobin, Alexander Pfaff<\/div>\n<div class=\"published\">Ecological Economics 204 (2023) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ecolecon.2022.107652<\/div>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/08\/moros_et_al2022.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2205 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/06\/pdf-icon-50x50-1.png\" alt=\"pdf link icon\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs exist globally and at times shift behaviors. Unlike protected areas, PES compensate land users, raising local acceptance of conservation. Yet some worry that if payments are temporary, as is often the case, conservation behaviors can be reduced by PES, \u2018crowded out\u2019 to be lower after PES than if no PES had existed. We conducted lab-in-the-field experiments in Colombia, where PES policies are expanding, offering either individual or collective conditional payments to 676 farmers who are potential PES participants. Those payments end, within each experimental session, for all or only for some participants. We consistently find that conservation is not lower after PES than before. Also, conservation contributions tend to fall over time without PES, in keeping with public-goods literatures. Taken together, these results imply that even after our payments end, conservation is above the baseline defined by our controls, suggesting some form of (at least short-run) crowding in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lina Moros, Maria Alejandra Velez, Daniela Quintero, Danny Tobin, Alexander Pfaff Ecological Economics 204 (2023) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ecolecon.2022.107652 Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs exist globally and at times shift behaviors. Unlike protected areas, PES compensate land users, raising local acceptance of conservation. Yet some worry that if payments are temporary, as is often the case, conservation behaviors can be reduced by PES, \u2018crowded out\u2019 to be lower after PES than if no PES had existed. We conducted lab-in-the-field experiments in Colombia, where PES policies are expanding, offering either individual or collective conditional payments to 676 farmers who are potential PES participants. Those payments end, within each experimental session, for all or only for some participants. We consistently find that conservation is not lower after PES than before. Also, conservation contributions tend to fall over time without PES, in keeping with public-goods literatures. Taken together, these results imply that even after our payments end, conservation is above the baseline defined by our controls, suggesting some form of (at least short-run) crowding in. &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":[197,32,35,39],"tags":[203,204,130],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-197","category-colombia","category-field-experiments","category-land-use-climate-mitigation","tag-columbia","tag-crowding","tag-pes","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia - 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