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Cutting Special Interests by the Roots: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
The paper examines the political agency of 'farmer mayors' in the Brazilian Amazon before and after the 2004 implementation of the PPCDAm. Using a regression discontinuity design, the authors find that prior to the policy, municipalities governed by farmers had significantly higher deforestation rates, CO2e emissions, and land-related conflicts. After the PPCDAm's introduction of real-time satellite monitoring (DETER), these effects largely disappeared, suggesting that tighter enforcement reduced the electoral and personal returns of promoting deforestation.
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