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...