@article{Melstrom:236254,
      recid = {236254},
      author = {Melstrom, Richard T. and Lee, Kangil and Byl, Jacob P.},
      title = {The effect of endangered species regulations on local  employment: Evidence from the listing of the lesser prairie  chicken},
      address = {2016-05},
      number = {333-2016-14095},
      pages = {37},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {The U.S. Endangered Species Act is often criticized as  pitting people against species by conserving habitat at the  cost of jobs. Critics of current conservation policies  argue that the protection of species is stripping  landowners of their property rights and putting people in  industries tied to resource extraction out of jobs. While  changes in employment are important measures of the public  costs of endangered species protection, relatively little  is known about the labor market impacts of listing a  species under the Endangered Species Act. We examine  changes in employment associated with the lesser prairie  chicken, an imperiled bird that was listed as threatened in  May 2014. Using monthly county-level employment data and  variation in potential prairie chicken habitat, we apply a  difference-in-differences strategy to measure the  employment impacts of the listing decision. We find  evidence that employment declined after the listing by  about 1% in counties with habitat relative to non-habitat  areas. We also find that the impact is proportional to  habitat, so counties with the most prairie-chicken habitat  experienced the largest impacts on employment.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/236254},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.236254},
}