Episode 1 - Payments For Ecosystem Services

As part of the "Economics Applied - Climate Change in 5 Minutes or Less" series, Professor and Department Head Jennifer Alix-Garcia discusses her research on payments for environmental services (PES) programs that incentivize landowners to protect or improve natural resources. Specifically, her research is on payments to landowners by the Mexican government to conserve forests and prevent deforestation.
The "Economics Applied - Climate Change in 5 Minutes or Less" series will continue, with additional videos showing how Applied Economists use their tools, methodology, and approach to study an important and timely issue like Climate Change.
To learn more, you can investigate the following links:
“Can Environmental Cash Transfers Reduce Deforestation and Improve Social Outcomes? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Mexico’s National Program (2011-2014) ” with Katharine Sims, Victor Hugo Orozco-Olvera, Laura Costica, Jorge David Fernandez Medina, Sofia Romo Monroy, Stefano Pagiola, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8707, January 2019 documents.worldbank.org/curate...
"Payments for environmental services supported social capital while increasing land management" with Katharine R.E. Sims, Victor H. Orozco-Olvera, Laura E. Costica, Jorge David Fernandez Medina, and Sofia Romo Monroy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, published ahead of print June 14, 2018 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720873115
“Only One Tree from Each Seed ? Environmental effectiveness and poverty alleviation in programs of payments for ecosystem services”, with Katharine Sims and Patricia Yanez-Pagans, American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, 7(4): 1-40, 2015 doi.org/10.1257/pol.20130139
“Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program” with Elizabeth Shapiro and Katharine Sims, Land Economics 88(4): 613-638, 2012 doi.org/10.3368/le.88.4.613

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