Dominic Parker
· Anderson-Bascom professor of applied economicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison · Environment and Resources
Active 1945–2025
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About
Dominic Parker is the Anderson-Bascom professor of applied economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research spans topics in environmental economics, economic development, and law and economics. Much of his work aims to understand the effects, both intended and unintended, of policies directed towards the environment and natural resources, with a particular focus on the role that markets and property rights play in regulating those effects.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Geography
- Economics
- Development economics
- Law
- Sociology
- Finance
- Computer Science
- History
- Geology
Selected publications
Land quality, land rights, and indigenous poverty
Journal of Development Economics · 2019-12-27 · 83 citations
articleWolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 81 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingRecent studies uncover cascading ecological effects resulting from removing and reintroducing predators into a landscape, but little is known about effects on human lives and property. We quantify the effects of restoring wolf populations by evaluating their influence on deer-vehicle collisions (DVCs) in Wisconsin. We show that, for the average county, wolf entry reduced DVCs by 24%, yielding an economic benefit that is 63 times greater than the costs of verified wolf predation on livestock. Mos…
Fragmented Ownership and Natural Resource Use: Evidence from the Bakken
The Economic Journal · 2020 · 38 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingAbstract Does land fragmentation impair spatially expansive natural resource use? We conduct empirical tests using ownership variation on the Bakken, one of the world's most valuable shale oil reserves. Long before shale was discovered, US policies created a mosaic of private, jointly owned and tribal government parcels on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. We find that all three forms of fragmentation reduced production during the 2010–15 oil boom, especially joint ownership and the interspe…
Agricultural Water Management · 2019-03-22 · 36 citations
articleIndigenous Self-Governance and Development on American Indian Reservations
AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2021 · 32 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingThe UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People promotes self-governance as a matter of justice rather than economics. How will self-governance affect the incomes of indigenous people? To gain insight, we compare long-run income growth on American Indian reservations with and without federal oversight through the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. Reservations with more autonomy had 12-15 percent higher income per capita in 2016, even conditional on 1930s income. However, these more autonomou…
Frequent coauthors
- 24 shared
K.T. Holman
Georgetown University
- 24 shared
S.M. Martin
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- 23 shared
Michael D. Ward
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
- 17 shared
Christopher Costello
University of British Columbia
- 14 shared
Robert T. Deacon
- 11 shared
Terry L. Anderson
Hoover Institution
- 8 shared
V. Kerry Smith
RTI International
- 8 shared
Bryan Leonard
University of Wyoming
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