Sticks, Carrots, and Reforestation Investment
研究了美国《濒危物种法》和公共财政援助项目（成本分摊和税收激励）对非工业私有林主再造林投资的影响，发现环境法规抑制投资而财政激励促进投资。
<i>Environmental regulations and public financial assistance programs are the typical “sticks” and “carrots” facing non-industrial private forest (NIPF) landowners in the U.S. This paper presents a theoretical framework and empirical evidence on the impacts of the Endangered Species Act and public financial assistance programs–cost-share programs and a tax incentive program–on reforestation investment behavior. The results indicate that NIPF landowners’ reforestation investments are influenced negatively by environmental regulations and positively by public financial assistance programs. The results imply that both sticks and carrots can be used simultaneously to influence NIPF landowners’ reforestation behavior.</i>