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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w29954 |
来源ID | Working Paper 29954 |
The Inherent Trade-Off Between the Environmental and Anti-Poverty Goals of Payments for Ecosystem Services | |
Seema Jayachandran | |
发表日期 | 2022-04-18 |
出版年 | 2022 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Conservation programs in low-income countries often have dual goals of protecting the environment and reducing poverty. This article discusses the tension between these two goals in payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs. Participants who undertake a pro-environment behavior receive a payment, which can be decomposed into two parts: the amount that compensates them for the cost of changing their behavior and the extra amount that is a "pure transfer" to them. To maximize the program's environmental benefits, a policy maker would like to set the pure transfer component to zero, but the pure transfer is the only part of the payment that increases participants' economic well-being. In practice, PES programs pay out some pure transfers, and the extent of the anti-poverty benefits depends on whether the pure transfers are de facto targeted to the poor. I lay out these points and then illustrate them with data from a randomized trial of payments for forest protection in Uganda. I provide evidence that the economic gains from participation in PES are indeed larger for those with low costs to fulfill the program's conservation requirements. I also show that, in this context, poorer eligible households enjoyed more improvement in their economic well-being than richer ones did. |
主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29954 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587628 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Seema Jayachandran. The Inherent Trade-Off Between the Environmental and Anti-Poverty Goals of Payments for Ecosystem Services. 2022. |
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