Add to ORKGWhile public goods can provide an overall increase in welfare, ‘inferior’ public facilities produce externalities specifically impacting host locations. Heterogeneous jurisdictional attributes, however, can cause net social benefits to vary across potential host communities. Using data from a unique public works project, this paper empirically investigates whether policymakers consider heterogeneous conditions when locating prison facilities. Results indicate that policymakers follow a process that maximizes net social benefits by systematically delegating such facilities to lagging communities; thereby potentially using the public facilities for economic development. Additionally, results suggest that policymakers properly consider existin...
This is a dissertation in three parts examining the impact of social policies on the economic well-b...
This report provides an economic overview of the correctional sector as background for the unfolding...
The coercive power of the state is distinctive, and yet incarceration is becoming more widely privat...
During the Prison Boom period (late 1980s through 2000), the US saw a dramatic increase in the numbe...
In the last twenty-five years, the number of prisons in central Appalachia has grown dramatically. S...
Since 2010, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has closed nine state prisons for adults. For the p...
Rural communities in the United States have been declining economically for the past four decades. S...
From 1980 to 2002, the U.S. prison population grew from 330,000 to 1,350,000 inmates. To house these...
Crowding in correctional facilities is a major problem that has continued to overwhelm correctional ...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
This thesis explores how the building of a prison impacts local political behaviors and public opini...
This paper critically examines the claim made by Canadian Conservative politicians that prison expan...
It has long been the case that social problems—poverty, crime, poor health, and others—concentrate i...
In the late twentieth century, the corrections sector in the United States massively increased in si...
Last Thursday’s post on this blog (and research report) by In the Public Interest (ITPI) shows how U...
This is a dissertation in three parts examining the impact of social policies on the economic well-b...
This report provides an economic overview of the correctional sector as background for the unfolding...
The coercive power of the state is distinctive, and yet incarceration is becoming more widely privat...
During the Prison Boom period (late 1980s through 2000), the US saw a dramatic increase in the numbe...
In the last twenty-five years, the number of prisons in central Appalachia has grown dramatically. S...
Since 2010, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has closed nine state prisons for adults. For the p...
Rural communities in the United States have been declining economically for the past four decades. S...
From 1980 to 2002, the U.S. prison population grew from 330,000 to 1,350,000 inmates. To house these...
Crowding in correctional facilities is a major problem that has continued to overwhelm correctional ...
The coercive power of the state is unique among its responsibilities. And yet, like many government ...
This thesis explores how the building of a prison impacts local political behaviors and public opini...
This paper critically examines the claim made by Canadian Conservative politicians that prison expan...
It has long been the case that social problems—poverty, crime, poor health, and others—concentrate i...
In the late twentieth century, the corrections sector in the United States massively increased in si...
Last Thursday’s post on this blog (and research report) by In the Public Interest (ITPI) shows how U...
This is a dissertation in three parts examining the impact of social policies on the economic well-b...
This report provides an economic overview of the correctional sector as background for the unfolding...
The coercive power of the state is distinctive, and yet incarceration is becoming more widely privat...