@article{Melstrom:276499,
      recid = {276499},
      author = {Melstrom, Richard T. and Lee, Kangil and Byl, Jacob P.},
      title = {Do Regulations to Protect Endangered Species on Private  Lands Affect Local Employment? Evidence from the Listing of  the Lesser Prairie Chicken},
      journal = {Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2018-09},
      number = {1835-2018-3855},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {The U.S. Endangered Species Act is often criticized as  “pitting people against wildlife" by conserving habitat at  the cost of jobs, but relatively little is known about the  labor market effects of listing a species under the  Endangered Species Act. We examine changes in employment  associated with the lesser prairie chicken, which was  listed as threatened in May 2014. Using county-level  employment data and variation in suitable prairie chicken  habitat, we apply a difference-in-differences strategy to  measure the employment effects of the listing decision. We  find evidence that employment declined about 1.5% in  affected counties. The effect is proportional to habitat,  which means counties with relatively more habitat  experienced a larger share of employment losses.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276499},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.276499},
}