have spent nearly $5 trillion ($2017) to provide clean rivers, lakes, and drinking water, or annual spending of 0.8 percent … of U.S. GDP in most years. Yet over half of rivers and substantial shares of drinking water systems violate standards …, and polls for decades have listed water pollution as Americans' number one environmental concern. We assess the history …

recreational goods and created new products that increased demand for recreation, and increased public provision of recreational …

I show that recreation has become much more egalitarian over the last hundred years by estimating recreational … incomes, declines in the price of recreation, and investment in public recreational goods. My findings have implications for …

From the theoretical point of view, the justification for aggregating leisure and work at home into one entity, "non-market …

The real price of recreation goods and services has fallen dramatically over the last century. At the same time, hours … per worker have also been on a steady decline. As recreation goods make leisure time more enjoyable, we investigate if the … recreation prices on hours worked, we use variation in the bundle of recreational goods across demographic groups to instrument …