Do US Counties Benefit from Wilderness Designation? Examining Local Government Revenue and County Expenditures
Ryan M. Yonk, Joshua Smith & Sarah Reale · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2019
We examine the effect of wilderness designation on US counties’ spending patterns as well the effect of designation on counties’ overall and tax revenue. Using data on each of the 3,144 US counties from the US Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics we apply ordinary lea...
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10.9734/JEMT/2019/46813