The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence from the Decline of Vultures in India - American Economic Association
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The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence from the Decline of Vultures in India by Eyal Frank and Anant Sudarshan. Published in volume 114, issue 10, pages 3007-40 of American Economic Review, October 2024, Abstract: Scientific evidence has documented we are undergoing a mass extinctio...
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Original Title: The collapse of India’s vulture population led to an additional 100,000 human deaths per year. Vultures functioned as a sanitation system, helping control diseases that could otherwise be spread through the carcasses they consume.