Causal inference in conservation policy: Evaluating the effects of Protected Areas on deforestation and well-being in the Peruvian Amazon

This repository provides the complete replication package for the manuscript "Causal inference in conservation policy: Evaluating the effects of Protected Areas on deforestation and well-being in the Peruvian Amazon" by Paredes, T. L. and Eckhardt, K. I. Contents include:- Stata do-files and Python scripts for data cleaning, ENAHO household-survey processing, regression discontinuity and staggered difference-in-differences estimations, and the generation of figures and tables for deforestation and welfare analyses.- Processed datasets (deforestation panel, ENAHO-based welfare panel) and raw deforestation source data.- Final figures (including multi-panel mosaics) and result tables as presented in the manuscript and its supplementary materials.- Shapefiles and accompanying documentation for Figure 1 (an original schematic map), illustrating its construction from base layers.- A README detailing the folder organization, software requirements, and step-by-step instructions to reproduce the analysis, including the manual GIS steps employed to construct the welfare dataset. Raw ENAHO microdata (modules 01, 03, and 34) are provided as downloaded from INEI's official microdata portal.