Effects of Ending Payments for Ecosystem Services: removal does not crowd prior conservation out

Serie

• Documentos CEDE

Resumen

• We implemented a decision experiment in the field with rural peasants in Colombia to test the effects of introducing then partially or totally removing Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). We consider individual and collective payments and different rules for removal. We find that there is clearly no behavioral ‘crowding-out’ when a PES is created then ended. Even a simple pre-versus-post-PES comparison finds ‘crowding in’, if anything, with contributions higher after PES was removed than before PES was introduced. Comparing to a control, without PES, strengthens that conclusion. We discuss four possible mechanisms explaining these findings: recognition or gratitude; lack of negative emotions; pre-existing and persistent intrinsic motivations, and evocation of pro-environmental behavior.

autores

• Moros, Lina
• Vélez, Maria Alejandra
• Pfaff, Alexander
• Quintero, Daniela

fecha de publicación

• 2020

Área temática

• Q01 - Desarrollo sostenible
• Q52 - Costes del control de la contaminación; Efectos distributivos; Efectos en el empleo
• Q57 - Economía ecológica: servicios del ecosistema; Conservación de la biodiversidad; Bioeconomía; Ecología industrial
• Q58 - Economía del medio ambiente: Política pública

Enfoque geográfico

• Colombia  Country
• South America  Continent

Líneas de investigación

• Colombia
• incentives
• lab in the field experiment
• payment for ecosystem services
• pro-environmental behavior

Issue

• 18590