Travel cost recreation demand models stem from a simple, but penetrating, insight.
Consumption of an outdoor recreation site's services requires the user to incur the costs of a …

Stated choice methods have been part of the tool kit of environmental economists for some
time, but were limited to contingent valuation methods. Recently, other varieties of stated …

The use of estimated willingness to pay (WTP) to evaluate welfare associated with changes
in the quality of recreational fishing presumes that WTP reflects variations in resource and …

Abstract Since 2010, over $2.4 billion in public funds have been invested in the cleanup and
restoration of the Great Lakes Basin through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Efforts …

Choice questions are increasingly being used to scale competing natural resource
programs. Respondents choose between two alternatives with varying levels of program …

In addition to choice questions (revealed and stated choices), preference surveys typically
include other questions that provide information about preferences. Preference-statement …

In this chapter, we focus on administration of stated choice (SC) surveys. Many decisions
you make regarding methodology will directly impact the quantity and quality of the data …

This thesis consists of a portfolio of research papers examining key contemporary technical,
methodological and policy issues on the use of non-market valuation in environmental …

The challenges of applying benefit transfer models to policy sites are often underestimated.
Analysts commonly need to estimate site-specific effects for areas that lack data on the …

Resource economists are often asked to value a proposed change at one, and only one,
recreational site; the model we develop and estimate is applicable for those cases. The …