Since Congress exploded onto the scene in the 1970s with several major pieces of environmental legislation, federalism has been a fixture of environmental policy debates. Prior to this time, environmental regulation had been left largely to state and local control. Since then, scholars and...

Hookah smoking is growing in popularity among college-age students in the United States. Community-based, semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 college-age individuals who had used a hookah to smoke tobacco. A structured analysis of responses was conducted and framed in...

The crowding-out by Medicaid has been identified as a possible reason for the low demand for private long-term care insurance. I extend the previous analysis to the case in which budget constraints inhibit access to care. This changes the nature, scope, and welfare implications of crowding-out....

Why did the United States adopt its labor laws? The extant federal laws have undergone little substantive change since 1959, and are mainly intact from the 1947 Taft-Hartley amendments to the 1935 Wagner Act. This paper goes back to the Wagner to Taft-Hartley period to ask why some states...

Following the 2011 flood of Chinese solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, SolarWorld and a conglomerate of six unnamed U.S. solar cell and module manufacturers filed a lawsuit in October 2011 against Chinese producers. The lawsuit alleged that the Chinese government was providing the named producers...

Water can be a scarce resource, particularly in certain places at certain times. Understanding both water use and conservation efforts can help ensure that limited supplies can meet the demands of a growing population and economy. This paper examines water use and recirculation in the U.S....

Dietary behavioral choices have a strong effect on the environmental impact associated with the food system. Here, we consider the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with production of food that is lost at the retail and consumer level, as well as the potential effects on GHG emissions of...

This article calculates the effective tax rate (ETR) of U.S. corporate multinationals. It takes into account the permanent deferral of corporate taxation of foreign earnings held in controlled foreign corporations designated as permanently reinvested earnings (PRE) and recurring tax holidays...

In recent decades the United States has been plagued by increasing levels of economic inequality. Such increase in economic inequality was posited to relate to excess compensation paid to corporate executives (Piketty & Saez, 2003). This artilce asserts that, to the contrary, the observed...