The net income and fiscal impacts generated by manufacturing plants on local, county, and regional communities in southeastern Ohio are estimated. Use of incremental income instead of consumption to measure primary benefits results in an increase in ...

Suicide rates for adolescents have doubled since 1970 and tripled since 1960, even as rates for other age groups have declined. Using a Becker-type model of household production and consumption, we demonstrate conditions under which utility maximizing parents allocate time away from...

The productivity of knowledge workers (the ""H" people") relative to that of unskilled workers (the ""L" people") could warrant that a region formulate economic development policies in order to raise this ratio via the in-migration of skilled labour. This article presents a theoretical model...