Abstract Among voluntary incentive programs in which private landowners receive a monetary transfer in exchange for conservation efforts, schemes providing payments conditional on spatial coordination are expected to enhance the effectiveness of conservation programs. Supportive evidence for such schemes is primarily derived from experimental or simulation-based research, but it is unclear whether real-world landowners might exhibit similar responses to such economic incentives. With detailed spatial data on forest parcels and actual contract information, this paper examines parcel-level responses to monetary returns from spatial coordination in a forest incentive program. Because the interdependence of payoffs among neighboring forest parcels predicts the establishment of multiple equilibria, I apply a simulation-based estimator in which it is assumed that each equilibrium will be realized with an equal probability. I found that monetary rewards positively influence parcel enrollment. However, the results also suggest that an additional monetary transfer causes almost no difference in parcel enrollment or the spatial connectedness of enrolled parcels.

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空间协调的货币奖励是否会增强对森林激励计划的参与？

摘要 在私人土地所有者获得货币转移以换取保护工作的自愿激励计划中，以空间协调为条件的支付计划有望提高保护计划的有效性。此类计划的支持性证据主要来自实验或基于模拟的研究，但尚不清楚现实世界的土地所有者是否会对此类经济激励措施表现出类似的反应。借助有关森林地块的详细空间数据和实际合同信息，本文研究了地块级别对森林激励计划中空间协调的货币回报的响应。因为相邻森林地块之间收益的相互依赖性预示着多重均衡的建立，我应用了一个基于模拟的估计器，其中假设每个均衡都会以相等的概率实现。我发现金钱奖励对包裹注册有积极影响。然而，结果还表明，额外的货币转移几乎不会导致包裹登记或登记包裹的空间连通性的差异。