This report examines the progress states in the Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration have made with their rebalancing programs—efforts to make community-based long-term care services and supports more accessible. States have spent MFP rebalancing funds on initiatives such as...

This paper adds to the recent literature on state-level incentive programs by evaluating the Quality Jobs Program in Oklahoma, which provides cash payments to businesses relocating to or expanding in the state. 70 communities across the state had a business that received QJ funding between 1994...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires concentrated animal feeding operations to develop and implement a comprehensive nutrient management plan. Changes in manure management to meet nutrient application standards will generally increase production costs. Some of these costs can be...

This report examines the economic effects of the principal programs authorized under the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 that influence the U.S. dairy sector. The analytical results presented in this study were used as input to a broader study mandated by Congress, which required...

This study determines the likely effect of cost-share incentives on participation in the Tennessee Forest Stewardship Program and identifies other factors that may contribute to participation. A random utility model is used to determine the probability that a landowner will choose to participate...

Investing in opportunities to conserveelectricity is frequently very economic to theenergy user. Often, it also is in society's, ratepayers',or a utility's economic interest to promotethis conservation by the utility providing afinancial incentive to the customer for the investment.Such a...