Impact fees are one-time fees imposed by municipalities upon builders when houses are first built. Proponents of impact fees claim that they compensate for marginal costs, and that the fees are absorbed by developers. The first part of this paper discusses several of the legal challenges to...

Previous research has detailed the positive link between economic freedom and environmental and public health outcomes. However, advances in the interim in our knowledge of how economic freedom affects various economic outcomes, as well as in the quantification of various economic institutions,...