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List of works by Paul J. Ferraro

12. Transforming Practice

A Global Review of Incentive Payments for Sea Turtle Conservation

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A cautionary tale on using panel data estimators to measure program impacts

A revealed preference approach to estimating supply curves for ecosystem services: use of auctions to set payments for soil erosion control in Indonesia

scientific article

Addressing Participant Inattention in Federal Programs: A Field Experiment with The Conservation Reserve Program

Advances in Measuring the Environmental and Social Impacts of Environmental Programs

Are Voters More Likely to Contribute to Other Public Goods? Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Policy Experiment

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Assigning priority to environmental policy interventions in a heterogeneous world

Asymmetric information and contract design for payments for environmental services

article by Paul J Ferraro published May 2008 in Ecological Economics

Bearing the costs of human–wildlife conflict: the challenges of compensation schemes

Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science

scientific article

CULTURAL DIVERSITY, DISCRIMINATION, AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS

Causal inference in coupled human and natural systems

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference

scientific article published in 2023

Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Participation in Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services

article by Rodrigo A. Arriagada et al published 13 May 2009 in Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Conditional cash transfers to alleviate poverty also reduced deforestation in Indonesia

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2011)

Conservation Contracting in Heterogeneous Landscapes: An Application to Watershed Protection with Threshold Constraints

Conservation outreach that acknowledges human contributions to climate change does not inhibit action by U.S. farmers: Evidence from a large randomized controlled trial embedded in a federal program on soil health

scientific article published in 2021

Correction: Do Payments Pay Off? Evidence from Participation in Costa Rica's PES Program

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Corruption and conservation: the need for empirical analyses. A response to Smith & Walpole

Cost-effective conservation when eco-entrepreneurs have market power

Counterfactual thinking and impact evaluation in environmental policy

Detecting other-regarding behavior with virtual players

Do Biodiversity Policies Work? The Case for Conservation Evaluation 2.0

Do Payments Pay Off? Evidence from Participation in Costa Rica's PES Program

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Do The Effects of Social Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2017

Ecology. Direct payments to conserve biodiversity

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Economic instruments for nature conservation

Ecosystem services and economic theory: integration for policy-relevant research

scientific article

Effectiveness of Community Forest Management at reducing deforestation in Madagascar

scholarly article by Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson et al published April 2015 in Biological Conservation

Emerging Evidence on the Effectiveness of Tropical Forest Conservation

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Estimating the effect of plantations on pine invasions in protected areas: a case study from South Africa

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Estimating the impacts of conservation on ecosystem services and poverty by integrating modeling and evaluation.

scientific article published on June 2015

Global Habitat Protection: Limitations of Development Interventions and a Role for Conservation Performance Payments

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Heterogeneous treatment effects and mechanisms in information-based environmental policies: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment

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Impacts of Community Forest Management on Human Economic Well-Being across Madagascar

Improving credibility and transparency of conservation impact evaluations through the partial identification approach

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Integrating economic costs into conservation planning

scientific article published on 16 October 2006

Know Thyself: Competence and Self-awareness

Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

article by Kathy Baylis et al published 29 April 2015 in Conservation Letters

Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions

scientific article

Making parks make a difference: poor alignment of policy, planning and management with protected-area impact, and ways forward

scientific article

Measuring the difference made by conservation initiatives: protected areas and their environmental and social impacts

scientific article published on November 2015

Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation

scholarly article

Money for nothing? A call for empirical evaluation of biodiversity conservation investments

scientific article (publication date: April 2006)

More strictly protected areas are not necessarily more protective: evidence from Bolivia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Thailand

scholarly article by Paul J Ferraro et al published 25 April 2013 in Environmental Research Letters

Moving Rio Forward and Avoiding 10 More Years with Little Evidence for Effective Conservation Policy

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Nudging pro-environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities

article published in 2018

One hundred questions of importance to the conservation of global biological diversity.

scientific article

Optimizing the Riparian Buffer: Harold Brook in the Skaneateles Lake Watershed, New York

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PROTECTING FORESTS AND BIODIVERSITY: ARE INVESTMENTS IN ECO-FRIENDLY PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS AND ENHANCE RURAL LIVELIHOODS?

Panel Data Designs and Estimators as Substitutes for Randomized Controlled Trials in the Evaluation of Public Programs

Park Location Affects Forest Protection: Land Characteristics Cause Differences in Park Impacts across Costa Rica

scholarly article by Alexander Pfaff et al published 13 January 2009 in BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Price Premiums for Eco-friendly Commodities: Are ‘Green’ Markets the Best Way to Protect Endangered Ecosystems?

Projecting the performance of conservation interventions

Protected areas reduced poverty in Costa Rica and Thailand.

scientific article

Protecting Ecosystems and Alleviating Poverty with Parks and Reserves: ‘Win-Win’ or Tradeoffs?

Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected areas affect poverty through changes in ecosystem services and infrastructure

scientific article

Regional Review of Payments for Watershed Services: Sub-Saharan Africa

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Response to Hockley: The merit of economic and biological measures in conservation planning

scientific article published in 2007

Social dimensions of procurement auctions for environmental service contracts: Evaluating tradeoffs between cost-effectiveness and participation by the poor in rural Tanzania

scholarly article by Rohit Jindal et al published March 2013 in Land Use Policy

Stock market reactions to information disclosure: new evidence from Japan’s pollutant release and transfer register

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Synthesizing evidence in sustainability science through harmonized experiments: Community monitoring in common pool resources

scientific article published on 01 July 2021

The Cost-Effectiveness of Conservation Payments

The Future of Payments for Environmental Services ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

The Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-Based Policy Instruments: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Policy Experiment

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The Persistent Impacts of Norm-Based Messaging and Their Implications for Water Conservation

The Problem of Feral Hogs and the Challenges of Providing a Weak‐Link Public Good

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

The Source and Significance of Confusion in Public Goods Experiments

The choice of message and messenger to drive behavior change that averts the health impacts of wildfires: an online randomized controlled experiment

scientific article published in 2022

The effectiveness of the US endangered species act: An econometric analysis using matching methods

The effects of protected area systems on ecosystem restoration: a quasi-experimental design to estimate the impact of Costa Rica's protected area system on forest regrowth

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The local costs of establishing protected areas in low-income nations: Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

scientific article published in 2002

The performance of non-experimental designs in the evaluation of environmental programs: A design-replication study using a large-scale randomized experiment as a benchmark

The today and tomorrow of kids: Time preferences and educational outcomes of children

Through what mechanisms do protected areas affect environmental and social outcomes?

scientific article

Unraveling complex causal processes that affect sustainability requires more integration between empirical and modeling approaches

scientific article published on 10 October 2023

Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment ⬇️

scientific article published in July 2011

Using Nonpecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

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Using counterfactuals to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of controlling biological invasions

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Using counterfactuals to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of controlling biological invasions

article by Matthew M. McConnachie et al published 28 July 2015 in Ecological Applications

Voluntary development of environmental management systems: motivations and regulatory implications

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