Do Payments for Environmental Services Affect Forest Cover? A Farm-Level Evaluation from Costa Rica

By R. Arriagada, Paul J. Ferraro, Erin Sills, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, S. Cordero-Sancho. Land Economics, 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change

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Only One Tree from Each Seed? Environmental Effectiveness and Poverty Alleviation in Mexico's Payments for Ecosystem Services Program (2015, background): “To date, research on avoided deforestation at the national level and across multiple years has only been conducted for Costa Rica's program (Sánchez-Azofeifa et al. 2007, Arriagada et al. 2012, Robalino and Pfaff 2013, Pfaff et al. 2014).”
Achieving the national development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through investment in ecological infrastructure: A case study of South Africa (2017, background): “In contrast, a public sector focussed discourse of investing in EI has proven to be more successful in many countries, including Costa Rica, Mexico, and South Africa (McAfee and Shapiro, 2010; Arriagada et al., 2012).”
Evaluation of biodiversity policy instruments: what works and what doesn't? (2012, background): “(2008), Ferraro and Hanauer (2011), and Ferraro et al. (2011) consider separately the impacts of the PAs established before 1979 and after 1981; their results suggest that older PAs prevented more deforestation.”
Parks versus PES: Evaluating direct and incentive-based land conservation in Mexico (2017, unknown): “This potential adverse selection problem has been described many times in the literature and is formally modeled by Ferraro (2008).1 To overcome this selection problem, policymakers can target payments based on observable characteristics likely to predict the risk of deforestation (described theoret”
Effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) on Deforestation and Poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review (2014, background): “As Daniels et al. (2010) point out, it is difficult to know whether the results from the Arriagada et al. (2012) study really represent a ‘best case’ scenario, given that estimation of the impact of PSA in Costa Rica is confounded generally by the fact that the 1996 law establishing the program…”
Envirodevonomics: A Research Agenda for an Emerging Field (2015, background): “Arriagada et al. (2012) use difference and difference with pre-matching on observables to evaluate the impacts of land use subsidies in one region of Costa Rica.”
Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests (2014, methodology): “This paper shows evidence supporting the theorywithinMexican common properties that applied to Mexico’s PSAH in 2004.”
Ecopayments and Deforestation in Costa Rica: A Nationwide Analysis of PSA’s Initial Years (2013, methodology): “This concern highlights another difference between our study and Arriagada et al.’s (2012). Their analyses blend paid and unpaid lands through the use of units of analysis larger than paid parcels.”