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Figure 8

From: Sustained participation in a Payments for Ecosystem Services program reduces deforestation in a Mexican agricultural frontier

Figure 8

Event-study graph of the annual effect of PES in parcels under renewed contracts. The graph shows the program’s avoided deforestation effect over time in parcels enrolled for 10 years or more. Avoided deforestation, represented on the y-axis, is measured as the share of enrolled areas that would have been deforested in the absence of treatment. Time, represented on the x-axis, represents the number of years after entering PES. For instance, 5 years after the beginning of the contract, PES had on average avoided 9.5% (95% CI [4.6%; 14%]) of cumulative deforestation. The trend lines capture the annual conservation effect of PES and show that such effect is weaker after the first contract renewal.

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