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Field
Intervention (Public)
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Before
There are 3 main treatments and one control group:
T1: Control group: No interventions
T2: Standard PES: Farmers will be offered a PES contract that pays them a cash transfer conditional on not burning their fields. This treatment is further divided into two sub-treatments: T2a pays the full amount, equal to the sum of payments in T4; T2b pays only the conditional amount in T4 or 75% of the value in T2a.
T3: Unconditional upfront cash transfer: Farmers will receive an unconditional cash transfer (same value as the unconditional cash transfer in T4).
T4: PES with part of payment upfront: Farmers will be offered a PES contract, and if they accept the contract, they will receive 25% of the PES payment as an unconditional cash transfer, and the remainder as a conditional payment, i.e. the conditional PES payment once it has been confirmed that their fields have not been burned.
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After
There are 2 main treatments and one control group:
T1: Control group: No interventions
T2: Standard PES: Farmers will be offered a PES contract that pays them a cash transfer conditional on not burning their fields. This treatment is further divided into two sub-treatments: T2a pays 800 Rs/acre; T2b pays 1600 Rs/acre.
T3: PES with part of payment upfront: Farmers will be offered a PES contract, and if they accept the contract, they will receive either 25% (T3a) or 50% (T3b) of the PES payment from T2a (800 Rs/acre) as an unconditional cash transfer, and the remainder as a conditional payment, i.e. the conditional PES payment once it has been confirmed that their fields have not been burned.
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