Trip Equivalency for Economic Valuation in Recreation Demand Models: Implications for Compensatory Restoration and Benefits Transfer

2021 ◽  
pp. 000-000
Author(s):  
Doug MacNair ◽  
George Parsons ◽  
Theodore Tomasi ◽  
Heath Byrd
2001 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis C. Nunes ◽  
Maria A. Cunha-e-Sá ◽  
Maria M. Ducla-Soares ◽  
Márcia A. Rosado ◽  
Brett H. Day

1986 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
George L. Peterson ◽  
Daniel J. Stynes

1974 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Jennings ◽  
Kenneth C. Gibbs

Some currently popular procedures for analyzing the demand for outdoor recreation makes use of ancillary travel and on-site expenditures of recreationists as proxy prices. It can yet regrettably be asked whether the estimates produced by those methods bear any resemblance to the market-equivalent price-quantity relationships they generally purport to quantify. To some unavoidable extent this results from the necessary reliance upon proxies, or surrogates, for both quantity and price data. The ultimate value of proxy variables and of estimated relationships between them lies in the extent to which they resemble useful concepts. Past research has been based largely on assumptions of the resemblance.


1980 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 798-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Wetzstein ◽  
John G. McNeely

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 1950008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Melstrom ◽  
Taylor Welniak

This paper provides evidence that welfare estimates from recreation demand models can be severely biased if the model omits congestion effects. Congestion effects arise when crowding at popular sites lowers site values. Measuring the effect of congestion is complicated by a well-known endogeneity problem in revealed preference data. We study congestion effects in a sample of licensed anglers in Oklahoma City. We develop a site choice model of freshwater fishing, and correct for endogenous congestion using an instrumental variables strategy. Our results add to the growing weight of evidence that ignoring congestion leads to estimates that understate the value of individual sites and site amenities.


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