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Pipe dreams
The district is awash in expensive projects to bring water to sparsely populated areas. Are they worth it?
Working Paper
A test of the theory of exhaustible resources
Working Paper
A park by any other name : national park designation as a natural experiment in signaling
Site designation by the National Park Service conveys a unique set of signals to information-constrained potential visitors. Changes in designation thus offer natural experiments to evaluate the signaling importance of names. This paper estimates the visitation effect of the conversion of National Monuments to National Parks through panel data analyses of the 8 designation changes that occurred between 1979 and 2000. These conversions have substantial and persistent effects on annual visitation, indicating that designation signals are indeed significant and credible. These signals appear to ...
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Do primary energy resources influence industry location?
By choosing to locate in a particular place, firms create employment opportunities for workers living there. And the wages they pay increase demand for local goods and services, creating additional job opportunities and further increasing the tax base. Consequently, state and local governments go to great lengths to encourage firms to locate within their boundaries.> In recent years, volatility in energy markets due to deregulation and events in the Middle East have increased the role that energy resource endowments may play in firm location. Thus, economic development agencies in energy ...
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Noteworthy : Water rights
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The nature and origins of the U.S. energy crisis
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Natural resources and regional growth