Alexander Pfaff - Publications

Affiliations: 
Columbia University, New York, NY 
Area:
Theory Economics, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Sciences

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2024 Gill DA, Lester SE, Free CM, Pfaff A, Iversen E, Reich BJ, Yang S, Ahmadia G, Andradi-Brown DA, Darling ES, Edgar GJ, Fox HE, Geldmann J, Trung Le D, Mascia MB, et al. A diverse portfolio of marine protected areas can better advance global conservation and equity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121: e2313205121. PMID 38408235 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2313205121  0.324
2020 Díaz S, Settele J, Brondizio E, Ngo HT, Pfaff A, Polasky S, Agard J, Arneth A, Balvanera P, Brauman KA, Butchart SHM, Chan KMA, Garibaldi LA, Ichii K, Liu J, et al. Investments' role in ecosystem degradation-Response. Science (New York, N.Y.). 368: 377. PMID 32327593 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Abb6019  0.356
2020 Börner J, Schulz D, Wunder S, Pfaff A. The Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Policies and Programs Annual Review of Resource Economics. 12. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Resource-110119-025703  0.502
2020 Sills E, Pfaff A, Andrade L, Kirkpatrick J, Dickson R. Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate: Forest & economic impacts of the Green Municipality Program in the Brazilian Amazon World Development. 129: 104891. DOI: 10.1016/J.Worlddev.2020.104891  0.439
2020 Correa J, Cisneros E, Börner J, Pfaff A, Costa M, Rajão R. Evaluating REDD+ at subnational level: Amazon fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil Forest Policy and Economics. 116: 102178. DOI: 10.1016/J.Forpol.2020.102178  0.409
2020 Keles D, Delacote P, Pfaff A, Qin S, Mascia MB. What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas? Evidence from across the Brazilian Amazon Ecological Economics. 176: 106733. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2020.106733  0.491
2019 Díaz S, Settele J, Brondízio ES, Ngo HT, Agard J, Arneth A, Balvanera P, Brauman KA, Butchart SHM, Chan KMA, Garibaldi LA, Ichii K, Liu J, Subramanian SM, Midgley GF, ... ... Pfaff A, et al. Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change. Science (New York, N.Y.). 366. PMID 31831642 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aax3100  0.351
2019 Herrera D, Pfaff A, Robalino J. Impacts of protected areas vary with the level of government: Comparing avoided deforestation across agencies in the Brazilian Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 31285315 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1802877116  0.765
2019 Naidoo R, Gerkey D, Hole D, Pfaff A, Ellis AM, Golden CD, Herrera D, Johnson K, Mulligan M, Ricketts TH, Fisher B. Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world. Science Advances. 5: eaav3006. PMID 30949578 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.Aav3006  0.393
2019 Fisher B, Herrera D, Adams D, Fox HE, Gallagher L, Gerkey D, Gill D, Golden CD, Hole D, Johnson K, Mulligan M, Myers SS, Naidoo R, Pfaff A, Rasolofoson R, et al. Can nature deliver on the sustainable development goals? The Lancet. Planetary Health. 3: e112-e113. PMID 30904104 DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30281-X  0.308
2019 Pfaff A, Rodriguez LA, Shapiro-Garza E. Collective Local Payments for ecosystem services: New local PES between groups, sanctions, and prior watershed trust in Mexico Water Resources and Economics. 28: 100136-100136. DOI: 10.1016/J.Wre.2019.01.002  0.378
2019 Pfaff A, Velez MA, Broad K, Hamoudi A, Taddei R. Contracts versus trust for transfers of ecosystem services: Equity and efficiency in resource allocation and environmental provision Water Resources and Economics. 28: 100118. DOI: 10.1016/J.Wre.2018.04.001  0.354
2019 Rodriguez LA, Pfaff A, Velez MA. Graduated stringency within collective incentives for group environmental compliance: Building coordination in field-lab experiments with artisanal gold miners in Colombia Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 98: 102276. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jeem.2019.102276  0.377
2018 Tesfaw AT, Pfaff A, Golden Kroner RE, Qin S, Medeiros R, Mascia MB. Land-use and land-cover change shape the sustainability and impacts of protected areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29440424 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1716462115  0.523
2018 Panlasigui S, Rico-Straffon J, Pfaff A, Swenson J, Loucks C. Impacts of certification, uncertified concessions, and protected areas on forest loss in Cameroon, 2000 to 2013 Biological Conservation. 227: 160-166. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2018.09.013  0.48
2017 Herrera D, Ellis A, Fisher B, Golden CD, Johnson K, Mulligan M, Pfaff A, Treuer T, Ricketts TH. Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children's health across 35 developing countries. Nature Communications. 8: 811. PMID 28993648 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-017-00775-2  0.408
2017 Pfaff A, Schoenfeld A, Ahmed KM, van Geen A. Reduction in exposure to arsenic from drinking well-water in Bangladesh limited by insufficient testing and awareness. Journal of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene For Development : a Journal of the International Water Association. 7: 331-339. PMID 28966785 DOI: 10.2166/Washdev.2017.136  0.334
2017 Pfaff A, Robalino J. Spillovers from Conservation Programs Annual Review of Resource Economics. 9: 299-315. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Resource-100516-053543  0.704
2017 Robalino J, Pfaff A, Villalobos L. Heterogeneous Local Spillovers from Protected Areas in Costa Rica Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 4: 795-820. DOI: 10.1086/692089  0.778
2017 Fisher B, Herrera D, Adams D, Fox HE, Gill DA, Golden CD, Mulligan M, Myers SS, Pfaff A, Selig ER, Ricketts TH. Effect of coastal marine protection on childhood health: an exploratory study The Lancet. 389: S8. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31120-0  0.406
2017 Alpízar F, Nordén A, Pfaff A, Robalino J. Spillovers from targeting of incentives: Exploring responses to being excluded Journal of Economic Psychology. 59: 87-98. DOI: 10.1016/J.Joep.2017.02.007  0.738
2017 Kaczan D, Pfaff A, Rodriguez L, Shapiro-Garza E. Increasing the impact of collective incentives in payments for ecosystem services Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 86: 48-67. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jeem.2017.06.007  0.351
2016 Pfaff A, Santiago-Ávila F, Joppa L. Evolving Protected-Area Impacts in Mexico: Political Shifts as Suggested by Impact Evaluations Forests. 8: 17. DOI: 10.3390/F8010017  0.503
2016 Baylis K, Honey-Rosés J, Börner J, Corbera E, Ezzine-de-Blas D, Ferraro PJ, Lapeyre R, Persson UM, Pfaff A, Wunder S. Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation Conservation Letters. 9: 58-64. DOI: 10.1111/Conl.12180  0.399
2015 Pfaff A, Robalino J, Sandoval C, Herrera D. 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. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 370. PMID 26460126 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2014.0273  0.746
2015 Pfaff A, Robalino J, Herrera D, Sandoval C. Protected Areas' Impacts on Brazilian Amazon Deforestation: Examining Conservation-Development Interactions to Inform Planning. Plos One. 10: e0129460. PMID 26225922 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0129460  0.791
2015 Sills EO, Herrera D, Kirkpatrick AJ, Brandão A, Dickson R, Hall S, Pattanayak S, Shoch D, Vedoveto M, Young L, Pfaff A. Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation. Plos One. 10: e0132590. PMID 26173108 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0132590  0.478
2015 Robalino J, Sandoval C, Barton DN, Chacon A, Pfaff A. Evaluating interactions of forest conservation policies on avoided deforestation. Plos One. 10: e0124910. PMID 25909323 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0124910  0.769
2015 Mandle L, Bryant BP, Ruckelshaus M, Geneletti D, Kiesecker JM, Pfaff A. Entry Points for Considering Ecosystem Services within Infrastructure Planning: How to Integrate Conservation with Development in Order to Aid Them Both Conservation Letters. DOI: 10.1111/Conl.12201  0.38
2015 Blackman A, Pfaff A, Robalino J. Paper park performance: Mexico's natural protected areas in the 1990s Global Environmental Change. 31: 50-61. DOI: 10.1016/J.Gloenvcha.2014.12.004  0.767
2015 Pfaff A, Vélez MA, Ramos PA, Molina A. Framed field experiment on resource scarcity & extraction: Path-dependent generosity within sequential water appropriation Ecological Economics. 120: 416-429. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2015.06.002  0.344
2015 Alpízar F, Nordén A, Pfaff A, Robalino J. Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate Environmental and Resource Economics. 1-22. DOI: 10.1007/S10640-015-9981-2  0.711
2014 Balasubramanya S, Pfaff A, Bennear L, Tarozzi A, Ahmed KM, Schoenfeld A, van Geen A. Evolution of households' responses to the groundwater arsenic crisis in Bangladesh: information on environmental health risks can have increasing behavioral impact over time. Environment and Development Economics. 19: 631-647. PMID 25383015 DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X13000612  0.303
2014 Haruna A, Pfaff A, van den Ende S, Joppa L. Evolving protected-area impacts in Panama: impact shifts show that plans require anticipation Environmental Research Letters. 9: 035007. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/035007  0.482
2014 Pfaff A, Robalino J, Lima E, Sandoval C, Herrera LD. Governance, Location and Avoided Deforestation from Protected Areas: Greater Restrictions Can Have Lower Impact, Due to Differences in Location World Development. 55: 7-20. DOI: 10.1016/J.Worlddev.2013.01.011  0.77
2013 Bennear L, Tarozzi A, Pfaff A, Balasubramanya S, Ahmed KM, van Geen A. Impact of a Randomized Controlled Trial in Arsenic Risk Communication on Household Water-Source Choices in Bangladesh. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 65: 225-240. PMID 23997355 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jeem.2012.07.006  0.344
2013 Robalino J, Pfaff A. Ecopayments and Deforestation in Costa Rica: A Nationwide Analysis of PSA's Initial Years Land Economics. 89: 432-448. DOI: 10.3368/Le.89.3.432  0.749
2013 Engel S, Palmer C, Pfaff A. On the Endogeneity of Resource Comanagement: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia Land Economics. 89: 308-329. DOI: 10.3368/Le.89.2.308  0.365
2013 Pfaff A, Amacher GS, Sills EO. Realistic REDD: Improving the forest impacts of domestic policies in different settings Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 7: 114-135. DOI: 10.1093/Reep/Res023  0.468
2013 Pfaff A, Velez MA, Taddei R, Broad K. Unequal Information, Unequal Allocation: Bargaining field experiments in NE Brazil Environmental Science & Policy. 26: 90-101. DOI: 10.1016/J.Envsci.2012.07.002  0.321
2013 Mueller V, Pfaff A, Peabody J, Liu Y, Smith KR. Improving stove evaluation using survey data: Who received which intervention matters Ecological Economics. 93: 301-312. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2013.06.001  0.33
2012 Pfaff A, Robalino J. Protecting forests, biodiversity, and the climate: Predicting policy impact to improve policy choice Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 28: 164-179. DOI: 10.1093/Oxrep/Grs012  0.778
2012 Robalino JA, Pfaff A. Contagious development: Neighbor interactions in deforestation Journal of Development Economics. 97: 427-436. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jdeveco.2011.06.003  0.743
2012 Pfaff A, Vélez MA. Efficiency and equity in negotiated resource transfers: Contributions and limitations of trust with limited contracts Ecological Economics. 74: 55-63. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2011.10.009  0.313
2011 Joppa LN, Pfaff A. Global protected area impacts. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 278: 1633-8. PMID 21084351 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.1713  0.547
2011 Yin H, Pfaff A, Kunreuther H. Can environmental insurance succeed where other strategies fail? The case of underground storage tanks. Risk Analysis : An Official Publication of the Society For Risk Analysis. 31: 12-24. PMID 20807380 DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.1265658  0.343
2010 Ricketts TH, Soares-Filho B, da Fonseca GA, Nepstad D, Pfaff A, Petsonk A, Anderson A, Boucher D, Cattaneo A, Conte M, Creighton K, Linden L, Maretti C, Moutinho P, Ullman R, et al. Indigenous lands, protected areas, and slowing climate change. Plos Biology. 8: e1000331. PMID 20305712 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.1000331  0.417
2010 Joppa L, Pfaff A. Reassessing the forest impacts of protection: the challenge of nonrandom location and a corrective method. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1185: 135-49. PMID 20146766 DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.2009.05162.X  0.546
2010 Pfaff A, Walker R. Regional interdependence and forest “transitions”: Substitute deforestation limits the relevance of local reversals Land Use Policy. 27: 119-129. DOI: 10.1016/J.Landusepol.2009.07.010  0.458
2009 Joppa LN, Pfaff A. High and far: biases in the location of protected areas. Plos One. 4: e8273. PMID 20011603 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0008273  0.467
2009 Pfaff A, Robalino J, Sanchez-Azofeifa GA, Andam KS, Ferraro PJ. Park Location Affects Forest Protection: Land Characteristics Cause Differences in Park Impacts across Costa Rica The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 9. DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1990  0.773
2009 Pfaff A, Robalino J, Sanchez-Azofeifa GA, Andam KS, Ferraro PJ. Park location affects forest protection: Land characteristics cause differences in park impacts across costa rica B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. 9. DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1990  0.779
2009 Pattanayak SK, Pfaff A. Behavior, Environment, and Health in Developing Countries: Evaluation and Valuation Annual Review of Resource Economics. 1: 183-217. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Resource.050708.144053  0.385
2008 Andam KS, Ferraro PJ, Pfaff A, Sanchez-Azofeifa GA, Robalino JA. Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 16089-94. PMID 18854414 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0800437105  0.772
2007 Sánchez-Azofeifa GA, Pfaff A, Robalino JA, Boomhower JP. Costa Rica's payment for environmental services program: intention, implementation, and impact. Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society For Conservation Biology. 21: 1165-73. PMID 17883482 DOI: 10.1111/J.1523-1739.2007.00751.X  0.76
2007 Pfaff A, Robalino J, Walker R, Aldrich S, Caldas M, Reis E, Perz S, Bohrer C, Arima E, Laurance W, Kirby K. Road investments, spatial spillovers, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Journal of Regional Science. 47: 109-123. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9787.2007.00502.X  0.726
2007 Robalino JA, Pfaff A, Sanchez-Azofeifa A. Estimating spatial interactions in deforestation decisions Biodiversity Economics. 92-114. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511551079.006  0.671
2007 Broad K, Pfaff A, Taddei R, Sankarasubramanian A, Lall U, DeAssisDeSouza Filho F. Climate, stream flow prediction and water management in northeast Brazil: Societal trends and forecast value Climatic Change. 84: 217-239. DOI: 10.1007/S10584-007-9257-0  0.308
2004 Pfaff A, Chaudhuri S, Nye HL. Endowments, preferences, technologies and abatement: growth-environment microfoundations International Journal of Global Environmental Issues. 4: 209. DOI: 10.1504/Ijgenvi.2004.006051  0.333
2004 Pfaff A, Barelli P, Chaudhuri S. Aid, economic growth and environmental sustainability: rich-poor interactions and environmental choices in developing countries International Journal of Global Environmental Issues. 4: 139. DOI: 10.1504/Ijgenvi.2004.005288  0.396
2003 Kerr S, Liu S, Pfaff AS, Hughes RF. Carbon dynamics and land-use choices: building a regional-scale multidisciplinary model. Journal of Environmental Management. 69: 25-37. PMID 12927149  0.333
2003 Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa G, Daily GC, Pfaff AS, Busch C. Integrity and isolation of Costa Rica's national parks and biological reserves: examining the dynamics of land-cover change Biological Conservation. 109: 123-135. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00145-3  0.358
1999 Pfaff A, Broad K, Glantz M. Who benefits from climate forecasts? Nature. 397: 645-646. DOI: 10.1038/17676  0.332
1994 Melo Jd, Pfaff A, Tarr D. Welfare costs and rent premia when quotas are not transferable European Economic Review. 38: 577-585. DOI: 10.1016/0014-2921(94)90093-0  0.304
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