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dc.contributor.advisorHarding, Torfinn
dc.contributor.authorBogetvedt, Ingvild Engen
dc.contributor.authorHauge, Mari Johnsrud
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-26T10:44:38Z
dc.date.available2018-02-26T10:44:38Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2486941
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the impact of institutional quality at the municipal level on deforestation in the Legal Amazon. We add to this insufficiently understood topic by implementing a geographic regression discontinuity design. By taking advantage of high-resolution spatial data on deforestation combined with an objective measure of corruption used as a proxy for institutional quality, we analyse 138 Brazilian municipalities in the period of 2002-2004. Our empirical findings show no causal effect of institutional quality on deforestation, suggesting that other unobserved factors are more important drivers of deforestation. A supplementary analysis indicates that location is a vital underlying factor in the interplay between deforestation and institutional quality. However, further research is needed to establish inference with respect to the relationship between deforestation, institutional quality and location.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.subjecteconomicsnb_NO
dc.subjectenergy, natural resources and the environmentnb_NO
dc.titleInstitutions and deforestation in the Brazilian amazon: a geographic regression discontinuity analysisnb_NO
dc.typeMaster thesisnb_NO
dc.description.localcodenhhmasnb_NO


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