Evidence regarding the ecological benefits of payment for ecological services programs from China’s grassland ecological compensation policy

We provide evidence that payment for ecological services programs have had a significant and robust positive impact on grassland quality by focusing on China’s grassland ecological compensation policy (GECP)—the planet’s largest. Our baseline results are obtained from a difference-in-differences est...

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Main Authors: Cong Wei, Yingfeng Zhou, Jiayang Kong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.989897/full