The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Program

By Jennifer Alix-García, Craig McIntosh, Katharine R. E. Sims, Jarrod R. Welch. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010

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Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Ecological Impact of Transportation Infrastructure (2018, background): “Does human economic progress have an unavoidable environmental cost? This is a central question for policymakers pursuing sustainable development and has been a long-standing debate in both the conservation and the economics literature (Arrow et al., 1995; Grossman and Krueger, 1995; Stern, Common a”
The Effect of Rural Credit on Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon (2019, background): “In particular, Alix-Garcia et al. (2013) nd that additional household income signi cantly increases consumption, with recipient households shifting strongly into land-intensive goods such as beef and milk. The literature contains several other e orts to test the relationship between household income”
Parks versus PES: Evaluating direct and incentive-based land conservation in Mexico (2017, unknown): “As illustrated in Figure 2, Thiessen polygons assign land to each locality based on the closest point and avoid the problem of double-counting (methodology follows Alix-Garcia et al. 2013).”
What Drives Deforestation and What Stops it? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies (2014, unknown): “A quasiexperimental study by Alix-Garcia et al (2013) found that increased income from a rural support program in Mexico raised the consumption of land-intensive goods and increased deforestation, especially in more remote communities.”
Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program (2012, background): “Approximately 25% of the sample falls et al. 2009; Pfaff et al. 2007; Ferraro, Hanauer, and Sims 2011).”
Envirodevonomics: A Research Agenda for an Emerging Field (2015, background): “in income to estimate these impacts is generated through a randomized cash transfer program in Mexico in the studies by Alix-Garcia et al. (2013) and Gertler et al.”