Activities, Regulatory Preferences and Regulatory Perceptions of Tennessee Anglers
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Volume
47
Publication Date
1993
First Page
767
Last Page
774
Abstract
This paper extends the Brown-Mendelsohn hedonic travel cost (HTC) model by estimating the travel cost function for each recreationist as a technically efficient frontier. It also constrains the marginal prices for desirable characteristics to be non-negative. The model is used to value improvements in the quality of sport fishing in the Albermarle-Pamlico Estuary in North Carolina. The application compares the performance of the frontier HTC with ordinary least squares estimates and finds the former to be free of problems identified in the literature and to provide more plausible and robust benefit estimates for quality improvements.
Recommended Citation
Jakus, Paul M., J. Mark Fly and J. Larry Wilson. 1993. “Activities, Regulatory Preferences and Regulatory Perceptions of Tennessee Anglers.” Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, 47:767-774. (Refereed)
