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   Assessing the Economy-Wide Effects of Costa Rica's Payments for Environmental Services Program

   April, 2014

   Costa Rica

   agriculture

   climate change

   deforestation

   forest conservation

   forest land

   forestry

   government purchases

   land degradation

   land economics

   land ownership

   land use

   property rights

   sustainable development

   transaction costs

   Costa Rica's Program of Payments
   for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales,
   PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct
   payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports
   evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa
   Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such
   evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how
   much forest would have been preserved if there had been no