Research

Refereed papers

Alix-Garcia J., Assunção J., Garg T., Mishra P., and Moffette F. “Tradeoffs and synergies for agriculture and environmental outcomes in the tropics”, Accepted at the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2025.

Katovich, E. and Moffette, F. “Does Local Politics Drive Tropical Land-Use Change? Property-Level Evidence from the Amazon”, Accepted at The Economic Journal, 2025.

Moffette F. and Alix-Garcia J., “Agricultural Subsidies: Cutting into Forest Conservation?”, Environment and Development Economics, vol. 29, issue 3, 2024  https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X23000189

Moffette F., Phaneuf D., Rausch L. and Gibbs H. “Environmental Policy and the Value of Property Rights in the Brazilian Amazon: Evidence from a New Database on Land Sales”, Global Environmental Change, Vol. 87, 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102854

Moffette F., Alix-Garcia J., Shea K. and Pickens A. H. “Freely Available Deforestation Alerts Can Reduce Emissions from Land Use Change,” Nature Climate Change, vol. 11. 2021 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01195-3

Moffette F., Skidmore M., and Gibbs H. “Environmental Policies That Shape Productivity: Evidence from Cattle Ranching in the Amazon”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 109, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102490

Skidmore, M., Moffette, F., Gibbs, H.K., Rausch, L., Christie, M., and Munger, J. “Cattle Ranchers and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Production, Location, and Policies”, Global Environmental Change, vol. 68, May 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102280

Moffette F., Alix-Garcia J., Shea K., and Pickens A. H. “The impact of near-real-time deforestation alerts across the tropics”, Nature Climate Change, vol. 11, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00956-w

Moffette F. and Gibbs H. “Agricultural Displacement and Deforestation Leakage in the Brazilian Legal Amazon.”, Land Economics, vol. 97, no. 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3368/wple.97.1.040219-0045R

He J., Moffette F., Fournier R., Revéret J. P., Théau J., Dupras J., Boyer J.-P. and Varin M. (2015) “Meta-Analysis for the Transfer of Economic Benefits of Ecosystem Services Provided by Wetlands Within Two Watersheds in Quebec, Canada.” Wetlands Ecology and Management: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-015-9414-6

Working papers

Saavedra S. and Moffette F. “Deforestation, Market linkages, and Health: Evidence from slaughterhouse closures in Colombia”, submitted. SSRN Working Paper.

Gibbs H., Moffette F., Munger J., Rausch L., Molina Vale P., L’Roe J., Barreto P. and Amaral T. “Impacts of Zero-Deforestation Cattle Agreements in the Brazilian Amazon Limited by Inconsistent and Evasive Behavior”.

Work in progress

Moffette F., Ruel-Gauthier A., Gibbs H., and Rausch L. “Effects of drought on rural property prices in Brazil”

Moffette, F. “Are fires reshaping landscape and land prices?”

Book chapter

Dupras, Jérôme, Jean-Pierre Revéret. Nature et économie : un regard sur les écosystèmes du Québec. Québec : Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2015. 314.

Other writing

L’ABC du commerce équitable, BIOClips+, Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec, vol.10, n. 1, 2007.

Moffette F., Savard L., Boccanfuso D. and Richard P. “Estimating the Impact of Québec’s Work Incentive Program on Labour Supply: an Ex Post Microsimulation Analysis“, Working Paper 13-01, GREDI.