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The Costs of Environmental Land-Use Regulation

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By Maxwell Tabarrok
| Cato Institute Verified
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects threatened and endangered species by restricting activities that may harm animals or damage their habitats. These protections can affect housing construction when developers must complete federal consultations, alter projects, purchase mitigation credits, or avoid protected areas. Although these requirements may provide important environmental benefits, they can also increase the cost, timeline, and uncertainty of building housing.
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The End of the Endangered Species Act?

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By Maxwell Tabarrok
| Substack
My paper on housing construction and the Endangered Species Act, The Costs of Environmental Land Use Regulation, has just been published in the Journal of Public Economics. The central idea of the paper is that the Endangered Species Act creates hundreds of natural experiments testing the effect of environmental land use regulation.
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The Causal Effect of Income is (Often) Zero

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By Maxwell Tabarrok
| Substack
Discover more from Maximum Progress Maximum Progress is a blog by Max Tabarrok on economics, science, philosophy, and progress. Over 9,000 subscribers Already have an account? Sign in Evidence on the effect of income on health, education, crime, and child outcomes from lotteries and RCTs Poverty is associated with a litany of negative outcomes in addition to the direct effects of material deprivation.
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