Environmental conditional cash transfers are popular but their impacts not well understood. We evaluate land cover and wealth of a federal program that pays landowners for protecting forest. Panel data beneficiaries rejected applicants allow us to control fixed differences time trends affecting both groups. find the reduces expected loss by 40–51 percent generates small positive poverty alleviation. gains higher where is low while household deforestation risk low, illustrating difficulty...

Abstract Natural resource managers are often expected to achieve both environmental protection and economic development even when there fundamental trade‐offs between these goals. Adaptive management provides a theoretical structure for program administrators balance social priorities in the presence of improve conservation targeting. We used case Mexico's federal Payments Hydrological Services (PSAH) illustrate importance adaptive improving documented elements PSAH corresponding changes...

This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and Caribbean face reviews causal evidence on impact brought by different transport system interventions implemented around world. The objective is to highlight main lessons learned identify knowledge gaps guide design evaluation of future investments. review highlights studies have been concentrated certain an important number carried out developed countries. Empirical due non-random placement these their...

An estimated 1.3 million people die in traffic accidents each year worldwide and millions more are injured, with developing countries disproportionately affected. It is predicted that the number of global deaths will be around 1.8 annually by 2030, making it eight cause death world. This paper provides an overview salient road safety issues Latin America Caribbean (LAC) region. also reviews existing theoretical causal empirical evidence interventions to improve outcomes, concentrating on...

This paper analyzes whether monetary incentives modify cooperative behavior in activities that have been traditionally unpaid. We provide a simple theoretical framework and exploit variation over time community access to Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) within Mexican common property communities, analyze payments increase work forest protection activities, which are increasingly incentivized under PES, also explore their eects on other remain nd cash work, both the intensive extensive...

This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and Caribbean face reviews causal evidence on impact brought by different transport system interventions implemented around world. The objective is to highlight main lessons learned identify knowledge gaps guide design evaluation of future investments. review shows studies have been concentrated certain an important number carried out developed countries. Empirical due non-random placement these their...

Despite the growing interest in and proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around world, their causal impacts on labor market outcomes remain unexplored. Reduced travel times for those who live near BRT stations or feeder lines, may increase access to a wider array job opportunities, potentially leading increased rates employment, higher quality (or formal) jobs, hours earnings. This paper assesses effects Metropolitano, system Lima (Peru), individual-level outcomes.We rely...

Despite the growing interest in and proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around world, their causal impacts on labor market outcomes remain unexplored.Reduced travel times for those who live near BRT stations or feeder lines, may increase access to a wider array job opportunities, potentially leading increased rates employment, higher quality (or formal) jobs, hours earnings.This paper assesses effects Metropolitano, system Lima (Peru), individual-level outcomes.We rely...

This paper studies the effects of aerial cable cars on mode transport, time use, and employment in metropolitan area La Paz, Bolivia. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate local average treatment car use for residents who system due to proximity a station. Results suggest that users substitute private transport favor public transit experience large savings commute time, which is reallocated toward educational activities. Users also increase self-employment activities,...

This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data expenditures revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression discontinuity design (RDD) is applied. As opposed to previous studies, RDD approach proposed unique since it implemented systems proportional representation. Findings indicate that municipalities women councilors devote more...

This paper compares the dynamic consistency of targeting methodologies that use multidimensional welfare indicators with those based on means and proxy tests using panel data from Mexico. To make these comparisons, an extension Alkire Foster (2008) dual cutoff poverty methodology is proposed. provides a relative approach to deprivation ranks individuals according aggregate their position in distribution set attributes or outcomes.

Although Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program Oportunidades has increased overall school enrollment, many adolescents do not attend school, especially in urban areas. This paper simulates the effects of changes program design using a simple parametric method based on simultaneous probability model attendance and child labor. The also provides alternative non simulation results by extending Todd Wolpin’s (2006) to incorporate working hours when attending school. indicate that...

This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, using satellite night-light luminosity as a proxy measure. Our identification strategy exploits differential timing rehabilitation projects across various road segments primary network. We combine multiple sources non-traditional data and carefully address concerns related to unobserved heterogeneity. The results obtained specifications consistently indicate that receiving project leads...

Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies causal impacts improved urban transport systems women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and elevated light rail investments metropolitan region Lima, Perú. We find large gains earnings per hour among women, not for men, due these investments. Most arise on extensive margin, with more being employed, but does...

Although Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program Oportunidades has increased overall school enrollment, many adolescents do not attend school, especially in urban areas. This paper simulates the effects of changes program design using a simple parametric method based on simultaneous probability model attendance and child labor. The also provides alternative non simulation results by extending Todd Wolpin’s (2006) to incorporate working hours when attending school. indicate that...