Sucre Ethique - Evaluating the impacts of growing sugarcane on social indicators in producing regions through spatial propensity score matching-

1er 2009

The expansion of sugarcane growing in Brazil, spurred particularly by increased demand for ethanol, has triggered the need to evaluate the economic, social and environmental impacts of this process, both on the country as a whole and on the growing regions.

Even though the balance of costs and bene ts is positive from an standpoint, this may not be so in speci c producing regions, due to negative externalities. The objective of this paper is to estimate the e ect of growing sugarcane on the human development index (HDI) and its sub-indices in cane producing regions. In the literature on matching e
ects this is interpreted as the e ect of the treatment on the treated.

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