2020
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1817394
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Communal Property Rights and Deforestation

Abstract: Almost a third of world's forest area is under communal management. In principle, this arrangement could lead to a "tragedy of the commons" and therefore more deforestation. But monitoring outsider's deforestation may be easier if the owner is a community rather than an individual. We study the effect of communal titling on deforestation in Colombia using a difference-in-discontinuities strategy that compares areas just outside and inside a title, before and after titling. We find that deforestation decreased … Show more

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“…Once again, Table 6 shows that the treatment was only effective in the large IRs, while there was no effect on the small IRs. A descriptive statistic of deforestation inside small and large IRs, might shed some light on whether this result goes in line with the theoretical predictions of Romero & Saavedra (2019). Table 7 indicates that deforestation was higher for all the periods in small IRs regardless of the definition used to split the sample.…”
Section: Heterogeneous Effectsmentioning
confidence: 64%
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“…Once again, Table 6 shows that the treatment was only effective in the large IRs, while there was no effect on the small IRs. A descriptive statistic of deforestation inside small and large IRs, might shed some light on whether this result goes in line with the theoretical predictions of Romero & Saavedra (2019). Table 7 indicates that deforestation was higher for all the periods in small IRs regardless of the definition used to split the sample.…”
Section: Heterogeneous Effectsmentioning
confidence: 64%
“…Moreover, the magnitude of the effect is a little bit larger to the one found using the whole sample, which is consistent with having no effect for the small IRs. This result can be understood with the theoretical model of Romero & Saavedra (2019), where they predict a decrease in deforestation when forests services valuation is high and there are more forest owners. The intuition behind that is very simple:…”
Section: Heterogeneous Effectsmentioning
confidence: 79%
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