Economic Activity and Biodiversity in the United States

This paper supersedes an earlier paper titled “The Environmental Effects of Economic Activities: Evidence from Ecological Observations.” We thank Lint Barrage, Panle Jia Barwick, Kathy Baylis, Karen Brandon, Tamma Carleton, Steve Cicala, Christopher Costello, Kenneth Gillingham, Cathy Kling, Olivier Deschenes, Eyal Frank, Stephie Fried, Koichiro Ito, Kelsey Jack, Mattew Kotchen, Kyle Meng, Frederik Noack, R. Jisung Park, Andrew Plantinga, Kevin Roth, Edson Severnini, Adam Storeygard, anonymous reviewers, and seminar participants at the BIOECON conference, Cornell University, Oregon State University, Peking University, Tufts University, UC Santa Barbara, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Yale University, and the NBER EEE Spring Meetings for helpful comments. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• October 6, 2021
• July 25, 2022
• November 4, 2022
• March 15, 2023