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Matthew Higgins

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Matthew W. Higgins
Working paper

Fight fire with finance: a randomized field experiment to curtail land-clearing fire in Indonesia

This paper presents a randomised evaluation of collective pay-for-performance payments for ecosystem services. The authors test whether community-level fiscal incentives can curtail the use of land clearing fire, a major source of emissions and negative health externalities, in a critical low regulation setting. The program...