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Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University

Durham, North Carolina (United States)
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Working papers

  1. Velez, Maria & Rueda, Ximena & Henao, Juan Pablo & Monroy, Dayron & Tobin, Danny & Maldonado, Jorge Higinio & Pfaff, Alexander, 2024. "Preferences of Small-Scale Gold Miners related to Formalization: first steps toward sustainable mining supply chains in Colombia," EfD Discussion Paper 24-5, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg.
  2. Moros, Lina & Vélez, María Alejandro & Pfaff, Alexander & Quintero, Daniela, 2022. "Ending Ecoservices Payments Does Not Crow Out Lab-in-the Field Forest Conservation," EfD Discussion Paper 22-7, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg.
  3. Derya Keles & Philippe Delacote & Alexander Pfaff & Siyu Qin & Michael Mascia, 2020. "What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas ? Evidence from across the Brazilian Amazon," Post-Print hal-02871163, HAL.
  4. Losos,Elizabeth Claire & Pfaff,Alexander & Olander,Lydia Pauline & Mason,Sara & Morgan,Seth, 2019. "Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8718, The World Bank.
  5. Derya Keles & Philippe Delacote & Alexander Pfaff & Siyu Qin & Michael B. Mascia, 2019. "What Drives Size Reductions for Protected Areas? Evidence about PADDD from across the Brazilian Amazon," Working Papers of BETA 2019-12, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.
  6. Rico Jimena & Panlasigui Stephanie & Loucks Colby J. & Swenson Jennifer & Pfaff Alexander, 2018. "Logging Concessions, Certification & Protected Areas in the Peruvian Amazon: Forest Impacts from Combinations of Development Rights & Land-use Restrictions," Working Papers 2018-11, Banco de México.
  7. Derya Keles & Philippe Delacote & Alexander Pfaff, 2018. "What drives the withdrawal of protected areas? Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon," Working Papers 1807, Chaire Economie du climat.
  8. Jimena Rico & Stephanie Panlasigui & Colby J. Loucks & Jennifer Swenson & Alexander Pfaff, 2017. "Logging concessions, certification and protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon: forest impacts from development rights and land-use restrictions," Working Papers 2017.22, FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
  9. Pfaff, Alexander & Robalino, Juan & Reis, Eustáquio J. & Walker, Robert & Perz, Stephen & Laurance, William & Bohrer, Claudio & Aldrich, Steven & Arima, Eugenio & Caldas, Marcellus & Kirby, Kathryn R., 2017. "Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers," Economics Discussion Papers 2017-83, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
  10. Juan Robalino & Alexander Pfaff & Laura Villalobos, 2015. "Deforestation spillovers from Costa Rican protected areas," Working Papers 201502, Universidad de Costa Rica, revised Sep 2015.
  11. Pfaff, Alexander & Santiago-Avila, Francisco & Carnovale, Maria & Joppa, Lucas, 2014. "Protected Areas' Impacts Upon Land Cover Within Mexico: the need to add politics and dynamics to static land-use economics," 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota 177195, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  12. Engel, Stefanie & Palmer, Charles & Pfaff, Alex, 2010. "Paper Tigers, Fences-&-Fines or Co-Management? Community conservation agreements in Indonesia's Lore Lindu National Park," Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Hannover 2010 12, Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics.
  13. Lori Bennear & Alessandro Tarozzi & Alexander Pfaff & H. B. Soumya & Kazi Matin Ahmed & Alexander van Geen, 2010. "Bright Lines, Risk Beliefs, and Risk Avoidance: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Bangladesh," Working Papers 10-77, Duke University, Department of Economics.
  14. Robalino, Juan & Pfaff, Alexander & Sanchez-Azofefia, G. Arturo & Alpizar, Francisco & Leon, Carlos & Rodriguez, Carlos Manuel, 2008. "Deforestation Impacts of Environmental Services Payments: Costa Rica’s PSA Program 2000–2005," RFF Working Paper Series dp-08-24-efd, Resources for the Future.
  15. Kerr, Suzi & Lipper, Leslie & Pfaff, Alexander S.P. & Cavatassi, Romina & Davis, Benjamin & Hendy, Joanna & Sanchez, Arturo, 2004. "Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica," ESA Working Papers 23807, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA).
  16. Kerr, Suzi & Pfaff, Alexander & Cavatassi, Romina & Davis, Benjamin & Lipper, Leslie & Sanchez, Arturo & Timmins, Jason, 2004. "Effects of poverty on deforestation: distinguishing behaviour from location," ESA Working Papers 23792, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA).
  17. Suzi Kerr & Joanna Hendy & Shuguang Liu & Alexander S. P. Pfaff, 2004. "Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies," Working Papers 04_03, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
  18. Suzi Kerr & Shuguang Liu & Alexander S. P. Pfaff & R. Flint Hughes, 2003. "Carbon Dynamics and Land-Use Choices: Building a Regional-Scale Multidisciplinary Model," Working Papers 03_06, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
  19. Pfaff, Alexander S.P., 1997. "What drives deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from satellite and socioeconomic data," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1772, The World Bank.

Articles

  1. Correa, Juliano & Cisneros, Elías & Börner, Jan & Pfaff, Alexander & Costa, Marcelo & Rajão, Raoni, 2020. "Evaluating REDD+ at subnational level: Amazon fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
  2. Keles, Derya & Delacote, Philippe & Pfaff, Alexander & Qin, Siyu & Mascia, Michael B., 2020. "What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas? Evidence from across the Brazilian Amazon," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
  3. Sills, Erin & Pfaff, Alexander & Andrade, Luiza & Kirkpatrick, Justin & Dickson, Rebecca, 2020. "Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate: Forest & economic impacts of the Green Municipality Program in the Brazilian Amazon," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
  4. Diego Herrera & Alexander Pfaff & Juan Robalino, 2019. "Impacts of protected areas vary with the level of government: Comparing avoided deforestation across agencies in the Brazilian Amazon," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116(30), pages 14916-14925, July.
  5. Rodriguez, Luz A. & Pfaff, Alexander & Velez, Maria Alejandra, 2019. "Graduated stringency within collective incentives for group environmental compliance: Building coordination in field-lab experiments with artisanal gold miners in Colombia," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
  6. Pfaff, Alexander S. P. & Robalino, Juan & Reis, Eustaquio J. & Walker, Robert & Perz, Stephen & Laurance, William & Bohrer, Claudio & Aldrich, Steven & Arima, Eugenio & Caldas, Marcellus & Kirby, Kath, 2018. "Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: Learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 12, pages 1-26.
  7. Juan Robalino & Alexander Pfaff & Laura Villalobos, 2017. "Heterogeneous Local Spillovers from Protected Areas in Costa Rica," Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press, vol. 4(3), pages 795-820.
  8. Alpízar, Francisco & Nordén, Anna & Pfaff, Alexander & Robalino, Juan, 2017. "Spillovers from targeting of incentives: Exploring responses to being excluded," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 87-98.
  9. Kaczan, David & Pfaff, Alexander & Rodriguez, Luz & Shapiro-Garza, Elizabeth, 2017. "Increasing the impact of collective incentives in payments for ecosystem services," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 48-67.
  10. Francisco Alpízar & Anna Nordén & Alexander Pfaff & Juan Robalino, 2017. "Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 67(1), pages 181-202, May.
  11. Pfaff, Alexander & Vélez, Maria Alejandra & Ramos, Pablo Andres & Molina, Adriana, 2015. "Framed field experiment on resource scarcity & extraction: Path-dependent generosity within sequential water appropriation," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 416-429.
  12. Erin O Sills & Diego Herrera & A Justin Kirkpatrick & Amintas Brandão Jr. & Rebecca Dickson & Simon Hall & Subhrendu Pattanayak & David Shoch & Mariana Vedoveto & Luisa Young & Alexander Pfaff, 2015. "Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(7), pages 1-15, July.
  13. Juan Robalino & Catalina Sandoval & David N Barton & Adriana Chacon & Alexander Pfaff, 2015. "Evaluating Interactions of Forest Conservation Policies on Avoided Deforestation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(4), pages 1-16, April.
  14. Pfaff, Alexander & Robalino, Juan & Lima, Eirivelthon & Sandoval, Catalina & Herrera, Luis Diego, 2014. "Governance, Location and Avoided Deforestation from Protected Areas: Greater Restrictions Can Have Lower Impact, Due to Differences in Location," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 7-20.
  15. Balasubramanya, Soumya & Pfaff, Alexander & Bennear, Lori & Tarozzi, Alessandro & Ahmed, Kazi Matin & Schoenfeld, Amy & van Geen, Alexander, 2014. "Evolution of households' responses to the groundwater arsenic crisis in Bangladesh: information on environmental health risks can have increasing behavioral impact over time," Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 19(5), pages 631-647, October.
  16. Stefanie Engel & Charles Palmer & Alexander Pfaff, 2013. "On the Endogeneity of Resource Co-management: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 89(2), pages 308-329.
  17. Mueller, Valerie & Pfaff, Alexander & Peabody, John & Liu, Yaping & Smith, Kirk R., 2013. "Improving stove evaluation using survey data: Who received which intervention matters," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 301-312.
  18. Alexander Pfaff & Gregory S. Amacher & Erin O. Sills, 2013. "Realistic REDD: Improving the Forest Impacts of Domestic Policies in Different Settings," Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 7(1), pages 114-135, January.
  19. Bennear, Lori & Tarozzi, Alessandro & Pfaff, Alexander & Balasubramanya, Soumya & Matin Ahmed, Kazi & van Geen, Alexander, 2013. "Impact of a randomized controlled trial in arsenic risk communication on household water-source choices in Bangladesh," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 65(2), pages 225-240.
  20. Juan Robalino & Alexander Pfaff, 2013. "Ecopayments and Deforestation in Costa Rica: A Nationwide Analysis of PSA’s Initial Years," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 89(3), pages 432-448.
  21. Alexander Pfaff & Juan Robalino, 2012. "Protecting forests, biodiversity, and the climate: predicting policy impact to improve policy choice," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 28(1), pages 164-179, Spring.
  22. Robalino, Juan A. & Pfaff, Alexander, 2012. "Contagious development: Neighbor interactions in deforestation," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(2), pages 427-436.
  23. Pfaff, Alexander & Vélez, Maria Alejandra, 2012. "Efficiency and equity in negotiated resource transfers: Contributions and limitations of trust with limited contracts," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 55-63.
  24. Miguel A. Fonseca & Alexander Pfaff & Daniel Osgood, 2012. "The Advantage of Resource Queues over Spot Resource Markets: Decision Coordination in Experiments under Resource Uncertainty," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 94(5), pages 1136-1153.
  25. Haitao Yin & Alex Pfaff & Howard Kunreuther, 2011. "Can Environmental Insurance Succeed Where Other Strategies Fail? The Case of Underground Storage Tanks," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 31(1), pages 12-24, January.
  26. Taylor H Ricketts & Britaldo Soares-Filho & Gustavo A B da Fonseca & Daniel Nepstad & Alexander Pfaff & Annie Petsonk & Anthony Anderson & Doug Boucher & Andrea Cattaneo & Marc Conte & Ken Creighton &, 2010. "Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(3), pages 1-4, March.
  27. Pfaff Alexander & Robalino Juan & Sanchez-Azofeifa G. Arturo & Andam Kwaw S & Ferraro Paul J, 2009. "Park Location Affects Forest Protection: Land Characteristics Cause Differences in Park Impacts across Costa Rica," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 9(2), pages 1-26, July.
  28. Subhrendu K. Pattanayak & Alexander Pfaff, 2009. "Behavior, Environment, and Health in Developing Countries: Evaluation and Valuation," Annual Review of Resource Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 1(1), pages 183-217, September.
  29. Madajewicz, Malgosia & Pfaff, Alexander & van Geen, Alexander & Graziano, Joseph & Hussein, Iftikhar & Momotaj, Hasina & Sylvi, Roksana & Ahsan, Habibul, 2008. "Erratum to "Can information alone change behavior? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh" [Journal of Development Economics 84 (2007) 731-754]," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(1-2), pages 349-347, February.
  30. Madajewicz, Malgosia & Pfaff, Alexander & van Geen, Alexander & Graziano, Joseph & Hussein, Iftikhar & Momotaj, Hasina & Sylvi, Roksana & Ahsan, Habibul, 2007. "Can information alone change behavior? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(2), pages 731-754, November.
  31. Alexander Pfaff & Juan Robalino & Robert Walker & Steven Aldrich & Marcellus Caldas & Eustaquio Reis & Stephen Perz & Claudio Bohrer & Eugenio Arima & William Laurance & Kathryn Kirby, 2007. "Road Investments, Spatial Spillovers, And Deforestation In The Brazilian Amazon," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(1), pages 109-123, February.
  32. Pfaff, Alexander S. P. & Sanchez-Azofeifa, G. Arturo, 2004. "Deforestation pressure and biological reserve planning: a conceptual approach and an illustrative application for Costa Rica," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 237-254, June.
  33. Alexander Pfaff & Shubham Chaudhuri & Howard L.M. Nye, 2004. "Endowments, preferences, technologies and abatement: growth-environment microfoundations," International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(4), pages 209-228.
  34. Alexander Pfaff & Paulo Barelli & Shubham Chaudhuri, 2004. "Aid, economic growth and environmental sustainability: rich-poor interactions and environmental choices in developing countries," International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(1/2/3), pages 139-159.
  35. Alexander Pfaff & Shubham Chaudhuri & Howard Nye, 2004. "Household Production and Environmental Kuznets Curves – Examining the Desirability and Feasibility of Substitution," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 27(2), pages 187-200, February.
  36. Zivin, Joshua Graff & Pfaff, Alexander S. P., 2004. "To err on humans is not benign: Incentives for adoption of medical error-reporting systems," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 23(5), pages 935-949, September.
  37. Alexander Pfaff & Chris William Sanchirico, 2004. "Big field, small potatoes: An empirical assessment of EPA's self-audit policy," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 23(3), pages 415-432.
  38. Pfaff, Alexander S P & Sanchirico, Chris William, 2000. "Environmental Self-Auditing: Setting the Proper Incentives for Discovery and Correction of Environmental Harm," The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press, vol. 16(1), pages 189-208, April.
  39. Pfaff, Alexander S. P. & Kerr, Suzi & Hughes, R. Flint & Liu, Shuguang & Sanchez-Azofeifa, G. Arturo & Schimel, David & Tosi, Joseph & Watson, Vicente, 2000. "The Kyoto protocol and payments for tropical forest:: An interdisciplinary method for estimating carbon-offset supply and increasing the feasibility of a carbon market under the CDM," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(2), pages 203-221, November.
  40. Pfaff, Alexander S. P., 1999. "What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?: Evidence from Satellite and Socioeconomic Data," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 37(1), pages 26-43, January.
  41. de Melo, Jaime & Pfaff, Alex & Tarr, David, 1994. "Welfare costs and rent premia when quotas are not transferable," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 38(3-4), pages 577-585, April.

Chapters

  1. Jaime de Melo & Alex Pfaff & David Tarr, 2017. "Welfare costs and rent premia when quotas are not transferable," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Trade Policies for Development and Transition, chapter 21, pages 487-495, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..

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  1. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (10) 2010-09-25 2014-12-08 2015-11-07 2017-10-22 2017-10-29 2018-09-24 2018-10-01 2019-01-07 2019-04-22 2020-03-23. Author is listed
  2. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (5) 2017-10-22 2017-10-29 2018-09-24 2018-10-01 2019-01-07. Author is listed
  3. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (1) 2017-10-22
  4. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2017-10-22
  5. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (1) 2020-03-23
  6. NEP-ICT: Information and Communication Technologies (1) 2019-04-22
  7. NEP-INT: International Trade (1) 2020-03-23
  8. NEP-RES: Resource Economics (1) 2003-09-08
  9. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (1) 2010-09-25
  10. NEP-TRE: Transport Economics (1) 2017-10-22
  11. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2020-03-23

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