| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29357 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29357 |
| Economic Production and Biodiversity in the United States | |
| Yuanning Liang; Ivan J. Rudik; Eric Zou | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-10-11 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Species extinctions and ecological degradation are accelerating to a degree unprecedented in human history. Despite such trends, causal evidence for economic drivers of biodiversity loss and effective policy responses remains sparse. Here we study the relationship between economic production and biodiversity using a novel panel dataset that contains detailed and consistently reported information on the types and quantities of wildlife at thousands of locations across the United States between 1960 and 2015. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation in local economic output due to national military buildups, we find that economic production substantially reduces the total abundance of wildlife, reduces the diversity of species, and changes the composition of species in a local ecosystem even holding the number of species constant. We provide new causal evidence that air pollution, an externality caused by economic production, is an important driver of biodiversity declines. We show that air quality regulations preserve biodiversity and provide policymakers with another lever for conservation efforts. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Growth and Productivity ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Renewable Resources ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29357 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587031 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Yuanning Liang,Ivan J. Rudik,Eric Zou. Economic Production and Biodiversity in the United States. 2021. |
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| w29357.pdf（1164KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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