期刊名称：Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
印刷版ISSN：1068-5502
出版年度：2018
卷号：43
期号：3
页码：346-363
出版社：WAEA
摘要：The U.S. Endangered Species Act is often criticized as “pitting people against wildlife" byconserving habitat at the cost of jobs, but relatively little is known about the labor market effectsof listing a species under the Endangered Species Act. We examine changes in employmentassociated with the lesser prairie chicken, which was listed as threatened in May 2014. Usingcounty-level employment data and variation in suitable prairie chicken habitat, we apply adifference-in-differences strategy to measure the employment effects of the listing decision. Wefind evidence that employment declined about 1.5% in affected counties. The effect is proportionalto habitat, which means counties with relatively more habitat experienced a larger share ofemployment losses.
关键词：conservation; Endangered Species Act; growth; habitat
