【摘要】The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) resulted in the protection of over 11 millionacres of public forestland in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. This paper quantifiesthe amenity effect arising from protected NWFP lands on long-run community economic growth. Usingcommunity fixed effects and postmatching panel regression to control for many sources of bias, wefind highly localized and positive amenity impacts on the growth in median income, population, andproperty values for small communities close to protected NWFP land, as compared to communities farfrom the NWFP. We find no effect on medium-sized communities.
【文献来源】Chen Y;Lewis D J;Weber B.Journal of Regional Science.2016(3)