Fellowship Director, Senior Fellow
Dominic P. Parker is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he serves editorial roles for three leading academic journals in environmental and resource economics. Parker is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a regular faculty lecturer at the Ronald Coase Institute and the Elinor Ostrom Workshop. His primary research interest is understanding the effects, intended and unintended, of public policies directed towards the environment and natural resources and the role that markets and property rights may play in regulating those effects. He also studies the economies of indigenous communities, and how colonial policies affect their development. Parker’s research spans studies of land use and conservation, wildlife and fisheries, conflict minerals, oil booms and busts, and renewable energy. It appears in journals in economics, science, and law and it has been featured in popular press outlets including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC News, and The Atlantic.
Allowing such “nonuse rights” to public natural resources would enable markets to advance environmental goals, leading to more stable and less contentious outcomes.
The role of fractionation and land quality in suppressing income growth on American Indian reservations.
Conservation easements are on the rise. But are tax breaks the most equitable—and effective—way to finance them?
While conflict-mineral measures in the Dodd-Frank Act may have reduced militia funding, the evidence suggests that they had the unintended effect of increasing human suffering.
New research on the unintended consequences of conflict-mineral regulation.
The role of tax incentives in promoting a fast-growing and novel type of conservation: voluntary, permanent restrictions on private land use through conservation easements.