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DESCRIPTION:Gabriela Demarchi (CIRAD\, UMR CIRED)\, “Greater Flexibility in
  Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from an RCT in the Amazon”\, En
 vironmental Economics Seminar\, Toulouse: TSE\, March 11\, 2024\, 11:00–12
 :15\, room Auditorium 4.\n\nIn Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) progra
 ms\, incentive payments conditional on zero deforestation do not always ma
 tch the time profile of landowners' opportunity costs. In this study\, we 
 examine the impact of adding some flexibility to PES contracts to allow la
 ndowners the possibility of receiving part of the financial incentive if s
 ome deforestation is detected during the contract period. We ran a pilot P
 ES program in the Brazilian Amazon during the last years of Jair Bolsonaro
 's mandate\, at a time when incentives to deforest were strong. Using the 
 Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism\, we implemented a PES procurement
  auction to elicit landowners' reservation prices for forest conservation.
  We embedded the BDM auction in a randomized controlled trial (RCT)\, whic
 h included one control group and two PES treatment groups of about 150 vol
 untary landowners each. In line with theoretical predictions\, we found th
 at\, while the flexible PES contract allowing some deforestation saved sli
 ghtly more forest\, the fixed payment contract requiring zero deforestatio
 n exhibited a higher benefit-cost ratio.
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20240311T110000
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LOCATION:Toulouse: TSE\, March 11\, 2024\, 11:00–12:15\, room Auditorium 4
SUMMARY:Environmental Economics Seminar
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.tse-fr.eu/seminars/2024-greater-flexibility-paymen
 ts-ecosystem-services-evidence-rct-amazon
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