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Reservation Prices : An Economic Analysis of Cigarette Purchases on Indian Reservations

DeCicca, Philip - 2014

The special legal status of Indian tribes in the U.S. means that state excise taxes are not necessarily collected on cigarette purchases on Indian reservations. We focus on two under-studied but basic empirical economic questions this raises. Using novel data from New York surveys that asked...

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Crowding in with Impure Altruism : Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2019

This paper makes three contributions to the literature on private provision of public goods. First, we identify limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism based on the extent of crowding out. While the...

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Is the Endangered Species Act Endangering Species?

List, John A. - 2007

We develop theory and present a suite of theoretically consistent empirical measures to explore the extent to which market intervention inadvertently alters resource allocation in a sequentialmove principal/agent game. We showcase our approach empirically by exploring the extent to which the...

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Should We Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2010

This paper provides model-based estimates of the value of oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The best estimate of economically recoverable oil in the federal portion of ANWR is 7.06 billion barrels of oil, a quantity roughly equal to US consumption in 2005. The oil is worth...

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Financing Outdoor Recreation

Banzhaf, H. Spencer; Smith, V. Kerry - 2022

The National Park Service and other agencies have argued that our recreation lands face a crisis of deferred maintenance. This paper evaluates two proposals for funding public lands, increasing gate fees and taxing recreational gear. It analyzes the joint welfare effects of such taxes and the...

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Combining Panel Data Sets with Attrition and Refreshment Samples

Hirano, Keisuke; Imbens, Guido; Ridder, Geert; Rubin, … - 2021

In many fields researchers wish to consider statistical models that allow for more complex relationships than can be inferred using only cross-sectional data. Panel or longitudinal data where the same units are observed repeatedly at different points in time can often provide the richer data...

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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration

Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - 2021

using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …

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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

Faber, Benjamin - 2016

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

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Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2010

There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...

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The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2010

Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …

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