Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation

We thank Robin Audy, Rebekah Chang, Alejandro Favela, Stephen Kagera, Meg Kearns, Lydia Kim, Pricilla Marimo, Ellen Moscoe, Suanna Oh, Alexander Persaud, Jaye Stapleton, and Nancy Thomas for outstanding research assistance; Chimpanzee Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Trust, Government of Uganda National Environment Management Authority, Innovations for Poverty Action (including Pia Raffler and Doug Parkerson), International Institute for Environment and Development, Nature Harness Initiatives, and Katoomba Group for collaborating on the project; Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Kelsey Jack, Cynthia Kinnan, Molly Lipscomb, Lee Lockwood, Dave Marvin, Stefano Pagiola, and several seminar participants for helpful comments; and the Global Environment Facility, through the United Nations Environment Programme, and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) for funding. Jayachandran also thanks the National Science Foundation for funding (SES-1156941). The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the partner organizations, funders, their members, nor the National Bureau of Economic Research.