Do Agritourism Visitors Care about Landscapes? An Examination with Producer-Level Data

This article develops a random utility model of tourist demand for agritourism destinations. Prior research has largely focused on modeling the effect of visitor characteristics and demographics on the demand for agritourism. In contrast, we analyze cross-section data on producer-reported visits to measure the effects of destination attributes. This allows us to examine whether tourists choose destinations based on landscape attributes. The destination choice model is applied to agritourism demand in Oklahoma. We calculate elasticities from both conditional logit and Poisson interpretations of the model. The results provide no evidence that landscapes affect the demand for single-day sites, but do suggest local land use plays a role in the demand for overnight destinations.

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The Demand for Food Grain in China: New Insights into a Controversy

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review ◽

10.1017/s1068280500000496 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Xiaobo Zhang ◽

Timothy D. Mount ◽

Richard N. Boisvert

Keyword(s):

Income Elasticity ◽

Cross Section Data ◽

Relative Prices ◽

Section Data ◽

Rapid Economic Growth ◽

Level Data ◽

Inferior Good ◽

Expenditure Elasticity ◽

Per Capita ◽

Food Grain

There is a substantial controversy in the economics literature over the magnitude of the expenditure elasticity for food grain in China that is caused, to a large extent, by whether time-series or cross-section data are used in the analysis. A set of reasonable elasticities for a complete demand system is estimated by using a panel of county level data in Guangdong Province for the last ten years. The results show that food grain has a small positive income elasticity, implying that food grain is not an inferior good in China. The reason that consumption per capita has not increased during a period of rapid economic growth in income is that the relative prices of the food and non-food substitutes for food grain have decreased.

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Pooling of Time Series and Cross Section Data

Econometrica ◽

10.2307/1912807 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 552

Author(s):

V. K. Chetty

Keyword(s):

Time Series ◽

Cross Section ◽

Cross Section Data ◽

Section Data

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Calculation of Electron Impact Single Ionization TDCS of Tungsten Atoms at 200, 500 and 1000 eV

Atoms ◽

10.3390/atoms9020031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 31

Author(s):

Ghanshyam Purohit

Keyword(s):

Electron Impact ◽

Cross Sections ◽

Projectile Energy ◽

Cross Section Data ◽

Scattered Electron ◽

Fusion Plasma ◽

Magnetic Devices ◽

Single Ionization ◽

Section Data ◽

Sensitive Dependence

We report triple differential cross-sections (TDCSs) for the electron impact single ionization of tungsten atoms for the ionization taking place from the outer sub shells of tungsten atoms, viz. W (6s), W (5d), W (5p) and W (4f). The study of the electron-induced processes such as ionization, excitation, autoionization from tungsten and its charged states is strongly required to diagnose and model the fusion plasma in magnetic devices such as Tokamaks. Particularly, the cross-section data are important to understand the electron spectroscopy involved in the fusion plasma. In the present study, we report TDCS results for the ionization of W atoms at 200, 500 and 1000 eV projectile energy at different values of scattered electron angles. It was observed that the trends of TDCSs for W (5d) are significantly different from the trends of TDCSs for W (6s), W (5p) and W (4f). It was further observed that the TDCS for W atoms has sensitive dependence on value of momentum transfer and projectile energy.

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Populism and the rational choice model: The case of the French National Front

Rationality and Society ◽

10.1177/1043463121995969 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 104346312199596

Author(s):

François Facchini ◽

Louis Jaeck

Keyword(s):

Political Party ◽

General Model ◽

Choice Model ◽

Right Wing ◽

Utility Model ◽

National Front ◽

General Process ◽

Expressive Voting ◽

Rational Choice Model ◽

Political Norms

This article proposes a general model of partisan political dealignment based on the theory of expressive voting. It is based on the Riker and Odershook equation. Voters cast a ballot for a political party if the utility associated with expressing their support for it is more than their expressive costs. Expressive utility is modeled here as a certain utility model. Then, the model is applied to the rise of voting support in favor of French right-wing populists, the National Front (FN). We show that the fall of justification costs of FN ideology along with the decline in stigmatization costs of voting in favor of the extreme right has fostered the popularity of this party. Political dealignment here is only a particular case of a general process of political norms transgression inherited by each voter.

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Sorting into Contests: Evidence from Production Contracts

The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy ◽

10.1515/bejeap-2018-0049 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Zhen Wang ◽

Tomislav Vukina

Keyword(s):

Fixed Effects ◽

Random Utility Model ◽

Random Utility ◽

Utility Model ◽

Fixed Effects Model ◽

Empirical Results ◽

Production Contracts ◽

Contract Choice ◽

Lower Ability ◽

Profit Maximizing

Abstract In this paper, we investigate sorting patterns among chicken producers who are offered a menu of contracts to choose from. We show that the sorting equilibrium reveals a positive sorting where higher ability producers self-select themselves into contracts to grow larger chickens and lower ability types self-select themselves into contracts to grow smaller birds. We also show that eliciting this type of sorting behavior is profit maximizing for the principal. In the empirical part of the paper, we first estimate growers’ abilities using a two-way fixed effects model and subsequently use these estimated abilities to estimate a random utility model of contract choice. Our empirical results are supportive of the developed theory.

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Applications of cross section data for nuclear geochemical well logging

Radiation Effects ◽

10.1080/00337578608208352 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 94 (1-4) ◽

pp. 49-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

R. C. Hertzog ◽

P. D. Soran ◽

J. S. Schweitzer

Keyword(s):

Cross Section ◽

Well Logging ◽

Cross Section Data ◽

Section Data ◽

Geochemical Well Logging

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An Am/Be neutron source and its use in integral tests of differential neutron reaction cross-section data

Applied Radiation and Isotopes ◽

10.1016/j.apradiso.2010.02.006 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 68 (9) ◽

pp. 1656-1661 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

M.S. Uddin ◽

M.R. Zaman ◽

S.M. Hossain ◽

I. Spahn ◽

S. Sudár ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cross Section ◽

Neutron Source ◽

Reaction Cross Section ◽

Reaction Cross ◽

Cross Section Data ◽

Section Data ◽

Neutron Reaction

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Unions and Productivity in the Public Sector: A Study of Municipal Libraries

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/001979398303600203 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 199-213 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Ronald G. Ehrenberg ◽

Daniel R. Sherman ◽

Joshua L. Schwarz

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Collective Bargaining ◽

Empirical Analysis ◽

Cross Section ◽

Cross Section Data ◽

The Public ◽

Section Data ◽

The Empirical Analysis

This paper develops and illustrates the use of two methodologies to analyze the effect of unions on productivity in the public sector. Although the methodologies are applicable to a wide variety of public sector functions, the focus of the paper is on municipal libraries because of the availability of relevant data. The empirical analysis, which uses 1977 cross-section data on 260 libraries, suggests that collective bargaining coverage has not significantly affected productivity in municipal libraries.

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