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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
Faber, Benjamin - 2016
Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …
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The Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy
Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and vegetation cover. We discuss critical issues...
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Crowding In with Impure Altruism : Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks
Kotchen, Matthew - 2019
This paper makes three contributions to the literature on private provision of public goods. First, we identify limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism based on the extent of crowding out. While the...
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Should We Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2007
protected status of ANWR's natural environment. Rather than estimate these costs and conduct a benefit-cost analysis, we …
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Is the Endangered Species Act Endangering Species?
List, John A. - 2006
, our modeling strategies can be widely applied -- from any particular economic environment that has a sequential …
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Reservation Prices : An Economic Analysis of Cigarette Purchases on Indian Reservations
DeCicca, Philip - 2014
The special legal status of Indian tribes in the U.S. means that state excise taxes are not necessarily collected on cigarette purchases on Indian reservations. We focus on two under-studied but basic empirical economic questions this raises. Using novel data from New York surveys that asked...
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Global Benefits of Marine Protected Areas
Rising, James - 2014
Case studies suggest that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can be effective tools for fishery management. This study uses global datasets of MPAs and stock assessments to estimate the strength and robustness of their benefits. We apply multiple models, including a treatment-control pairing, a...
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User Rights for Ocean Ecosystem Conservation
Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Non-target marine fish species and ocean ecosystems are increasingly valuable. Ongoing efforts to preserve them emphasize spatial controls on human entry and use via Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). They cover 7.6% of world oceans and aim for 30% by 2030 under the Convention for Biological...
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An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
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Economic Growth and the Environment
Grossman, Gene M. - 1994
Using data assembled by the Global Environmental Monitoring System we examine the reduced-form relationship between various environmental indicators and the level of a country's per capita income. Our study covers four types of indicators: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the...
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