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100			_aAssuncao, J., Gandour, C. and Rocha, R. _941689
245			_aDETER-ing deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental monitoring and law enforcement
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
300			_a15(2), Apr, 2023: p.125-156
520			_aWe study Brazil's recent use of satellite technology to overcome law enforcement shortcomings resulting from weak institutional environments. DETER is a system that processes satellite imagery and issues near-real-time deforestation alerts to target environmental enforcement in the Amazon. We propose a novel instrumental variable approach for estimating enforcement's impact on deforestation. Clouds limiting DETER's capacity to detect clearings serve as a source of exogenous variation for the presence of environmental authorities. Findings indicate that monitoring and enforcement effectively curb deforestation. Results hold across several robustness checks.- Reproduced
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
906			_aFOREST MANAGEMENT
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