This paper analyzes the determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. From a model of optimal land use, it derives and then estimates a deforestation equation on county-level data for the period 1978 to 1988.
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Paper provided by Columbia University, Department of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number
1996_28.