Research

Working Papers

Impacts of Piped Water Shortages on Labor Supply: Evidence from Mexico City

Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics

Paper | SSRN | Featured in: World Bank Development Impact Blog | VoxDev

Comparing Protection Types in the Peruvian Amazon: Multiple-Use Protected Areas Did No Worse for Forests

with Sofía Olguín, Zhenhua Wang, and Alexander Pfaff

SSRN | CAF Working Paper No. 2022/20


Publications

When Do Extraction Rights Help Forests? Robustness and Heterogeneity for Logging Interventions in the Peruvian Amazon

Jimena Rico-Straffon, Zhenhua Wang, Colby J. Loucks, and Alexander Pfaff

Conservation Science and Practice (2025)

Forest Concessions and Eco-Certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation Impacts of Logging Rights and Restrictions

Jimena Rico-Straffon, Zhenhua Wang, Stephanie Panlasigui, Jennifer Swenson, Colby J. Loucks, and Alexander Pfaff

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2023)

Impacts of Certification, Uncertified Concessions, and Protected Areas on Forest Loss in Cameroon, 2000–2013

Stephanie Panlasigui, Jimena Rico-Straffon, Alexander Pfaff, Jennifer Swenson, and Colby J. Loucks

Biological Conservation (2018)


Selected Works in Progress

Impact of Land Tenure on Tropical Working Lands

with Daniela Miteva, Subhrendu Pattanayak, Alexander Pfaff, Erin Sills, Allen Blackman, Bronson Griscom, and others