R&R at the Journal of Politics
Our paper on political signals and deforestation is under revision at the Journal of Politics.
Recent posts
Launching the PRISE Lab
The Policy Research in Sustainability and Economics (PRISE) Lab at UT Dallas is now live.
Shift-share
Some shift-share links
Corruption and deforestation
A collection of corruption scandals and newspaper articles related to deforestation.
Media: Publication highlighted in Nature Climate Change
NCC presents our political palm-oil paper in its ‘research highlights’.
Presentation: EPG Online: Palm oil and the politics of deforestation
Political and agricultural incentives reinforce each other leading to 18% more deforestation in pre-election years.
Publication: Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia
Deforestation increases in the year before local district elections especially in locations facing high incentives to plant oil palm.
Honor: Received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship
We won the MSCA 2020 fellowship with the project PlanetHealth.
Code: Bulk regressions
Looping regressions and displaying results in a comprehensive html file.
Publication: Evaluating REDD+ at subnational level: Amazon fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil
The Amazon Fund is the world’s largest program to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)
Code: Flexible spatial lag metrics with raster data in R
A flexible way to create spatial lag values with raster data.
Code: Create a map of connecting locations
Connecting cities I lived in.
Code: Nightlight statistics for spatial units
This is an easy and fast way to process DMSP-OLS nightlight data and to build your statistics, such as mean, min, max, or other.
Code: Nightlight (DMSP-OLS) download and preparation
Download and pre-processing of nightlight data DMSP-OLS versions (1992-2013).
Code: Post-estimation predictions with FD and FE regressions in R
Post-estimation predictions with panel data. Building alternative outcomes with different policy scenarios.
Code: Google Tracking meets leaflet heatmap
Building a heatmap using data gathered by Google GPS tracking.
Code: First difference estimation in R: lfe vs. plm package
Introduction to FD estimation in R contrasting the lfe packages and plm package
Publication: Building Adaptive Capacity in Changing Social-Ecological Systems
Building resilient sustainable social-ecological systems (SES) requires communities to enhance their adaptive capacities.
Publication: Selection biases and spillovers from collective conservation incentives in the Peruvian Amazon
Payments for ecosystem services are becoming popular components in strategies to conserve ecosystems and biodiversity, but their effectiveness remains poorly...
Media: SWR2 interview on Brazil’s deforestation blacklist
Discussing the results of my research paper published in PLOS ONE.
Post: From shame to fame? On Brazil’s experiment using public disclosure for conservation
Brazil has probably been the first country in the world experimenting with the “naming and shaming” approach in the forestry sector and at a large (Amazon) s...
Publication: Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Starting in 2008, the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment has regularly published blacklists of critical districts with high annual forest loss.
Media: Protected areas of Brazil
Video on expansion of protected areas in Brazil since the early 1900s.
Presentation: Intern. Workshop: Evaluating Forest Conservation Policies
First results of my research on conditional cash transfers in protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon.