Cycles of Fire? Politics and Forest Burning in Indonesia

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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Main Authors: Balboni, Clare, Burgess, Robin, Heil, Anton, Old, Jonathan, Olken, Benjamin A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144446

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