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| Author: | Ferraro, P.J. McIntosh, C. Ospina, M. |
| Title: | The effectiveness of the US endangered species act: An econometric analysis using matching methods |
| Journal: | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
2007 : NOV, VOL. 54:3 p. 245-261 |
| Index terms: | biodiversity |
| Freeterms: | endangered species act (ESA) |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Completely opposed perspectives of the effectiveness of the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) co-exist more than 30 years after the Act's creation. The evidence found for and against the ESA lacks the absence of a well-chosen control group. The authors show how matching methods can be implemented to choose such a control group and thereby estimate how species listed under the ESA would have fared had they not been listed. The authors find in their study that listing a species under the ESA is, on average, unfavourable to species recovery if not combined with noticeable government funds. In contrast, listed species with such funding tend to get better. The study offers new insights to the topic as well as a methodology to guide conservation scientist in reviewing the impacts of society´s responses to biodiversity loss. |
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