Conferencia de la cátedra: Características e impacto económico de las personas migrantes y refugiadas en Costa Rica
Spillovers can significantly reduce or enhance the effects of land-use policies, yet there exists little rigorous evidence concerning their magnitudes. We examine how national parks within Costa Rica affect the clearing of forest nearby. We findthat average deforestation spillover impacts are not significant within 0-5km and 5-10km rings around parks. However, we argue that this average blendsmultiple spillover effects, each of which is likely to vary inmagnitudeacross the landscape, yielding varied net effects. We distinguishthese effectsusingdistances to roads and park entrances, given the importance of transport costs and, for Costa Rica, tourism. We find large and statistically significant leakage close toroads in areas without tourism,i.e., far from the park entrances. In contrast, no leakage isfound far from roads orclose to park entrances. In sum, the combination of low transport costs and low returns to forest is conducive to deforestationleakage aroundtheparks.