Household demand for finfish: A generalized double-hurdle model

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 220-234

  Yen, Steven T ^a,b   Huang, Chung L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Double hurdle model; Finfish; Heteroskedasticity; Inverse hyperbolic sine transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002781628     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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