Assessing policy impacts on natural resource businesses : a review of research methods

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2016

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Fenster, Emily
Abrams, Jesse
Moseley, Cassandra
Becker, Dennis R.

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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon

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The purpose of this working paper is to review research methods used to assess the influence of public policies on natural resource business decision-making. We describe a suite of research methods that have been used to assess policy impacts on businesses, highlighting their analytical advantages and disadvantages. We emphasize natural resource policies and businesses in our review, but also present literature from other fields as relevant. With this review we attempt to contribute to a greater ability to conduct evaluation for policies and programs targeting natural resource firms.

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24 pages

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