Institutions and the Effectiveness of Environmental Protection

Timothy Neal

No 2020-15, Discussion Papers from School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

Abstract: This article uses satellite data to estimate the effectiveness of government protection on forested land across the globe over 2000-2018. Since deforestation is a significant contributor to precipitous declines in biodiversity, spillover of zoonotic viruses and climate change, measuring and analysing the effectiveness of protection is important for the future of conservation. It uses a regression discontinuity design at the boundaries of protected forest to overcome the fact that protection is not randomly assigned. It finds that many countries lack effective protection, and that effectiveness is strongly related to the quality of institutions and negatively related to economic development.

Keywords: Regression Discontinuity; Climate Change; Biodiversity; Corruption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C21 P48 Q23 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2020-10
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