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Explaining the Determinants of Operating Budgets at U.S. National Parks

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  • Robert W. Turner

    (Colgate University)

  • W. Reed Walker

    (Columbia University)

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The authors use time-series, cross-section, and panel data sets to see whether U.S. National Park System operating budget appropriations are related to inflation, visitation, size, region of the country, and type of park unit. The growth rate of the aggregate National Park Service (NPS) budget seems to increase in response to higher congestion. But neither visitation growth nor growth in acreage seems to have much effect on budget growth for individual park units. Individual park units with higher visitation do seem to have larger budgets, ceteris paribus, than do parks with lower average visitation. Judging from the findings, future research should try to explain differences among the several types of park units in the NPS as well as explaining why visitation and park size have small effects for individual park units but seem to have larger effects for the aggregate NPS operating budget.

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  • Robert W. Turner & W. Reed Walker, 2006. "Explaining the Determinants of Operating Budgets at U.S. National Parks," Public Finance Review, , vol. 34(5), pages 551-573, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pubfin:v:34:y:2006:i:5:p:551-573
    DOI: 10.1177/1091142106289741
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    1. Beal, Diana, 1996. "The Behaviour of Agency Costs Relevant to Visitation at National Parks of South-Western Queensland," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 26(1), pages 1-24, March.
    2. Robert W. Turner, 2000. "Managing Multiple Activities in a National Park," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 76(3), pages 473-485.
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    2. Robert W. Turner & Blake Willmarth, 2014. "Valuation of Cultural and Natural Resources in North Cascades National Park," SAGE Open, , vol. 4(2), pages 21582440145, April.
    3. Matthew Kotchen & Katherine R.H. Wagner, 2019. "Crowding In with Impure Altruism: Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks," NBER Working Papers 26445, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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