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. 2017 Dec 21;12(12):e0190119. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190119

Table 3. The effect of investments on percent deforestation at the fokontany-level.

Full sample Only investments mapped to Fokontany Only Fokontany that received any investment Full sample (omitting 2007 data) Only investments mapped to Fokontany (omitting 2007 data) Only Fokontany that ever received an investment (omitting 2007 data)
Investments measured as binary value (no lag)
Marginal effect -0.086 -0.006 -0.088 -0.106* -0.063 -0.114*
Std Error 0.068 0.061 0.071 0.059 0.058 0.063
Total Observations 704 594 488 616 545 427
Total Fokontany 88 88 61 88 88 61
Investments measured as 2014 USD (no lag)
Marginal effect -0.003 -0.001 -0.002 -0.009 -0.007 -0.008
Std Error 0.007 0.007 0.007 0.005 0.006 0.008
Total Observations 648 545 448 567 501 392
Total Fokontany 81 81 56 81 81 56
Investments measured as 2014 USD (2-year lag)
Marginal effect -0.043** -0.035** -0.049** N/A N/A N/A
Std Error 0.017 0.016 0.022 N/A N/A N/A
Total Observations 486 457 336 N/A N/A N/A
Total Fokontany 81 81 56 N/A N/A N/A
Prob>F-value 0.039 0.094 0.090 N/A N/A N/A

Note: Marginal effects from linear fixed effects regressions. Percent deforestation and 2014 USD were both log-transformed. Level of statistical significance reported as:

* p<0.10;

** p<0.05;

*** p<0.01.

N/A indicates that output with or without 2007 data is the same because data is lagged. Specifically, when estimating Eq 3, percent deforestation for the year 2007 is not included in Yit, because we did not have data on investments prior to 2007 (e.g., 2006 investments). Information on 2007 investments were included in Eq 3 as a lagged independent variable for 2008 outcomes (1-year lag) and 2009 outcomes (2-year lag).