Delay on the Path to the Endangered Species List: Do Costs and Benefits Matter?

Amy Ando

No 10564, Discussion Papers from Resources for the Future

Abstract: This paper uses duration analysis to evaluate the ability of interest groups to influence the timing of decisions to add species to the endangered species list by exerting pressure on the Fish and Wildlife Service. Using data from 1990 to 1994, it finds that public opposition and support can substantially slow and hasten (respectively) the progress of candidate species through the parts of the listing process most directly under the agency's control. Since the Service is not an atypical agency, similar patterns of public influence on delay may exist in other areas of bureaucratic decision making as well.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40
Date: 1999
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Working Paper: Delay on the Path to the Endangered Species List: Do Costs and Benefits Matter (1998)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.10564

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