Academic title
PhD
E-mail:
alex.pfaff@duke.edu

Pfaff, Alexander

Alexander Pfaff is Associate Professor of Public Policy, Economics and Environment  at Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy.

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Publications
Preferences of small-scale gold miners related to formalization – first steps toward sustainable mining supply chains in Colombia
Small-scale gold miners’ preferences on formalization: first steps toward sustainable supply chains in Colombia
No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia
Temporary PES do not crowd-out and may crowd-in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia
Ending Ecoservices Payments Does Not Crowd Out Lab-in-the-Field Conservation
Can we increase the impacts from payments for ecosystem services? Impact rose over time in Costa Rica, yet spatial variation indicates more potential
Leaders’ distributional & efficiency effects in collective responses to policy: Lab-in-field experiments with small-scale gold miners in Colombia.
Collective Local Payments for Ecosystem Services: new local PES between groups, sanctions and prior watershed trust in Mexico
Contracts versus trust for transfers of ecosystem services: Equity and efficiency in resource allocation and environmental provision.
Graduated stringency within collective incentives for group environmental compliance: Building coordination in field-lab experiments with artisanal gold miners in Colombia
Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
Heterogeneous Local Spillovers from Protected Areas in Costa Rica
Spillovers from Conservation Programs
Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate
Protected area types, strategies and impacts in Brazil's Amazon: public protected area strategies do not yield a consistent ranking of protected area types by impact
Evaluating Interactions of Forest Conservation Policies on Avoided Deforestation
Paper Park Performance: Mexico’s Natural Protected Areas in the 1990s
Behavioral Spillovers from Targeted Incentives: Losses from Excluded Individuals Can Counter Gains from Those Selected
Effects of Exclusion from a Conservation Policy: Negative Behavioral Spillovers from Targeted Incentives
Ecopayments and Deforestation in Costa Rica: A Nationwide Analysis of PSA’s Initial Years
Governance, Location and Avoided Deforestation from Protected Areas: Greater Restrictions Can Have Lower Impact, Due to Differences in Location
Contagious development: Neighbor interactions in deforestation
Protecting forests, biodiversity, and the climate: predicting policy impact to improve policy choice
Measuring the Effectiveness of Protected Area Networks in Reducing Deforestation: A Rigorous Impact Evaluation Approach
Park Location Affects Forest Protection: Land Characteristics Cause Differences in Park Impacts across Costa Rica
Payments for Environmental Services: Empirical analysis for Costa Rica
Location Affects Protection: Observable Characteristics Drive Park Impacts in Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s Payment for Environmental Services Program: Intention, Implementation and Impact
People | 13 March 2013