Fig 1.
Annual deforestation and number of inspected offenses from 2000–2011.
Table 1.
Data sources.
Fig 2.
Study area and 2007 forest cover in the Legal Amazon.
Table 2.
Counts of geo-referenced inspections across categories and observation periods.
Table 3.
Variables used in analyses.
Fig 3.
Inspection locations and changes in deforestation for observation periods 2009 (lower panel) and 2010 (upper panel).
Fig 4.
Balance before and after matching without direct neighbors using alternative distance measures.
Fig 5.
Average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) at different grid resolutions with (a) and without (b) direct neighbors. Error bars depict Abadie-Imbens (AI) standard errors.
Table 4.
Average effect of inspections in inspected grid cells.
Table 5.
Average treatment effects of inspections and inspection intensity.
Table 6.
State–level average treatment effects of inspection intensity after matching.
Table 7.
Amazonas state average treatment effects after state-level matching.