Ecopayments and Deforestation in Costa Rica: A Nationwide Analysis of PSA’s Initial Years

By J. Robalino, A. Pfaff. Land Economics, 2013

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Deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon: prices or policies? (2015, background): “This issue lies at the core of the recent debate about PES efforts (Angelsen and Wertz-Kanounnikoff, 2008; Angelsen, 2010; Alston and Andersson, 2011; Robalino and Pfaff, 2013).”
Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests (2014, background): “The vast majority of these studies use some form of matching (Honey-Roses et al. 2011; Alix-Garcia et al. 2012b, 2013; Robalino & Pfaff 2013), sometimes combinedwith a difference-in-differences approach (Honey-Roses et al. 2011,Arriagada et al. 2012, Alix-Garcia et al. 2013) by using forest…”
Effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) on Deforestation and Poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review (2014, background): “…covered by PSA conservation contracts and on the common support with matched nonPSA tracts matching No Yes Yes Unclear Yes Yes Yes Costa Rica PSA Robalino and Pfaff (2013) 1997-2000 1kmX1km forested PSA conservation contracts pixels matching and multiple regression No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes…”
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).”