scorematching approach. The empirical results indicate that the impact
of community participation in forest management has positive and significant
effects across all the four matching algorithms. The average
treatment affect for the treated (ATT) are Ngultrum 2605–3169 higher
for the participating households as compared to non-participating
households. Similarly, the results for poverty are negative and significant
in all the fourmatching algorithms. The results for poverty indicate
that households participating in the community forest management