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Smallholder land clearing and the Forest Code in the Brazilian Amazon

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Author	Schons, Stella Z. Lima, Eirivelton Amacher, Gregory S. Merry, Frank
Copyright Year	2019
Description	Small landholders’ contribution to Amazon deforestation in Brazil has been persistent even after government actions have allowed a steep reduction in the overall annual deforestation area since 2004. We investigate land clearing and the incentives to comply versus not to comply with environmental legislation, allowing for selection into compliance or noncompliance due to unobserved perceptions of Forest Code enforcement. Our dynamic land clearing model is empirically tested through an endogenous switching regression method applied to data collected from households in the Transamazon-BR163 region between 2003 and 2014, when Forest Code enforcement supposedly increased. We show that smallholder compliance and noncompliance preferences lead to a selection problem that must be addressed in any land clearing behavior examination. We find that greater marginalization, longer land tenure and transitions to cattle grazing, but not agricultural rents, are major contributors to forest clearance and incentives not to comply with the Forest Code.
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Ending Page	179
Page Count	23
Starting Page	157
ISSN	1355770X
e-ISSN	14694395
DOI	10.1017/s1355770x18000505
Journal	Environment and Development Economics
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	24
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2019-04-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Environment and Development Economics Agricultural Economics Brazilian Forest Code Environmental Legislation Enforcement Perceptions Smallholders in the Amazon
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Development Economics and Econometrics Environmental Science

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