Spillover effects of deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon
| Grant number: | 15/17942-4 |
| Support type: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree |
| Effective date (Start): | October 01, 2015 |
| Effective date (End): | March 31, 2016 |
| Field of knowledge: | Applied Social Sciences - Economics |
| Principal Investigator: | André Luis Squarize Chagas |
| Grantee: | Luíza Cardoso de Andrade |
| Supervisor abroad: | Alexander Pfaff |
| Home Institution: | Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Local de pesquisa : | Duke University, United States |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 14/19332-6 - Spillover effects of deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, BP.MS |
Abstract This project estimates the impact of the a targeted deforestation curbing policy. Apart from the policy's effect on the treated municipalities, we intend to test if it also affects their neighbors. Studies evaluating the impact of such policies on deforestation commonly disregard the possibility of spatial spillover affecting the neighbors. As an innovative feature, we use an spatial difference-in-difference estimator to include the spillovers in the estimated effects. If the policy reduces deforestation the results in the literature might be underestimating the policy's effectiveness. More importantly, if it dislocates deforestation to the neighbors, not taking spill-over effects into account overestimates the effects and mislead the policy's accountability. The objectives of the research internship are to improve and discuss the theoretical model proposed, the treatment of the database and the econometric estimation method and to find other possible applications for both the theoretical framework and the empirical method. | |