Causes of land use change

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• "Remotely Incorrect? Accounting for Nonclassical Measurement Error in Satellite Data on Deforestation" Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023, forthcoming

  • • Final submitted version

    • Dataverse page for paper

    • World Bank blog summary of the paper

• “Drivers of forest cover change in Eastern Europe and European Russia, 1985-2012,” with Catalina Munteanu, Na Zhao, Peter Potapov, Alexander Prishchepov, Volker Radeloff, Alexander Krylov, and Eugenia Bragina.  Land Use Policy, 59: 284-297, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.08.014

• “Playing favorites: Tax incentives and urban growth in China, 1978-2010” with Annemarie Schneider and Na Zhao, Land Economics, 91: 1-27, 2016 https://doi.org/10.3368/le.92.1.1

•  “The Effect of Decentralized Governance on Timber Extraction in European Russia” with Kelly Wendland and David Lewis, Environmental and Resource Economics, 57 (19) : 1-22,  2013

• “The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Mexico’s Oportunidades program ” with Craig McIntosh, Katharine Sims, and Jerrod Welch, Review of Economics and Statistics 95(2): 417-435, 2013 https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00349

• “Prices, land tenure institutions, and geography: A Matching Analysis of Farmland Abandonment in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe” with Tobias Kuemmerle and Volker Radeloff, Land Economics 88(3): 425-443, 2012 https://doi.org/10.3368/le.88.3.425

• "Regional- and district-level drivers of timber harvesting in European Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union" With Kelly Wendland, David Lewis, Mutlu Ozdogan, Mathias Baumann, and Volker Radeloff, Global Environmental Change 21 (4): 1290-1300, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.07.003 

• “Lessons about parks and poverty from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda” with Lisa Naughton-Treves and Colin Chapman, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science 108 (34): 13919-13924, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1013332108

• “An Exploration of the Positive Effect of Inequality on Common Property Forest” Journal of Development Economics 87(1): 92-105, 2008 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.12.009

• “A Spatial Analysis of Common Property Deforestation” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 53(2): 141-147, 2007 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2006.09.004 

• “A Tale of Two Communities: Explaining Deforestation in Mexico” with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. World Development  33(2): 219-235, 2005 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.07.010