Cycles of Fire? Politics and Forest Burning in Indonesia
<jats:p> This paper examines the link between electoral incentives and environmental degradation by exploiting a satellite dataset on 107,000 forest fires and 879 asynchronous district elections in Indonesia. Fires represent a cheap but illegal means of converting forested land to other uses,...
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American Economic Association
2022
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144446 |