Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation

• Erin O. Sills ,

  * E-mail: sills@ncsu.edu (ES); alex.pfaff@duke.edu (AP)

  Affiliations Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America, IMAZON, Amazon Institute of People and the Environment, Belém, Brazil

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• Diego Herrera,

  Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• A. Justin Kirkpatrick,

  Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Amintas Brandão Jr.,

  Affiliation IMAZON, Amazon Institute of People and the Environment, Belém, Brazil

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• Rebecca Dickson,

  Affiliation TerraCarbon LLC., Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

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• Simon Hall,

  Affiliation National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Subhrendu Pattanayak,

  Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• David Shoch,

  Affiliation TerraCarbon LLC., Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

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• Mariana Vedoveto,

  Affiliation School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America

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• Luisa Young,

  Affiliation Geography Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States of America

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• Alexander Pfaff

  * E-mail: sills@ncsu.edu (ES); alex.pfaff@duke.edu (AP)

  Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

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