We find that presidential and congressional influences affect the rate of disaster declaration and the allocation of FEMA disaster expenditures across states. States politically important to the president have a higher rate of disaster declaration by the president, and disaster expenditures are...

The forced sale of homes for private development usually results in a zero-sum gain and may actually hinder development in the area, economists have found.

Proponents of such mass transit recite a litany of benefits, but the cost to taxpayers is high.>

This paper measures the extent to which destination resort casinos export bankruptcy back to visitors' home states. Previous literature has alluded to this possibility, but previous research has not examined the issue. Using various survey data, we calculate the number of visits from each state...