PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Villalobos, Laura
AU  - Caviglia-Harris, Jill
AU  - Harris, Daniel
AU  - Frey, Elaine
TI  - Rural Electrification in the Brazilian Amazon
AID  - 10.3368/le.103.1.020926-0023
DP  - 2026 Jul 26
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 020926-0023
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2026/07/16/le.103.1.020926-0023.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2026/07/16/le.103.1.020926-0023.full
AB  - Rural electrification is widely promoted to improve livelihoods, yet its land-use consequences in forest frontiers remain unclear. Using longitudinal household surveys linked to property boundaries and satellite land cover in the Brazilian Amazon, we apply heterogeneity-robust staggered-adoption difference-in-differences. Electrification increases cattle income over the medium term but has no detectable effect on annual property-level deforestation. Income gains appear to reflect herd expansion on existing pasture and a modest refrigerated-milk price premium rather than higher per-animal productivity.