Forecasts of the regional economic impacts of changes in the demand for recreation occasioned by regulatory changes, changes in the quality of the recreation experience, or changes in average trip costs require a model that links changes in these trip attributes to individual participation...

Changes in sportfishing trip attributes such as cost, harvest regulations, environmental quality, and resource abundance, affect both the expected net benefits associated with a fishing trip and participation decisions. The ability to estimate both of these is important for various types of...

Data from a stated preference survey of anglers who fished in marine waters off the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, are used to model angler participation, angler welfare, and regional economic activity. The probability of taking a sportfishing trip is represented as a nonlinear function of predictable...

Results of a postal survey of participants in the 1997 central and lower Cook Inlet saltwater halibut and salmon sport fisheries are reported and compared with the results of the 1997 Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) statewide sportfishing harvest survey and the 1998 ADF&G saltwater...

Econometricians modeling Stated Preference (SP) data, and most other types of data, are confronted with the uncomfortable reality that our knowledge of the “true” model is limited, with only certain variables suggested by the application at hand and general classes of functional forms and...