The political economy of deforestation in the tropics

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1707-1754

  Burgess, Robin ^a   Hansen, Matthew ^b   Olken, Benjamin A ^c   Potapov, Peter ^a   Sieber, Stefanie ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC THEORY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LOGGING (TIMBER); PARALLEL ECONOMY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SATELLITE DATA;

INDONESIA;

EID: 84870338985     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjs034     Document Type: Article

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