Estimating Producer's Surplus with the Censored Regression Model: An Application to Producers Affected by Columbia River Basin Salmon Recovery

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 325-346

  Moore, Michael R ^a   Gollehon, Noel R ^b   Hellerstein, Daniel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endangered Species Act; Multioutput supply; Pacific Northwest; Producer's surplus; Salmon; Tobit regression; Water price

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034362366     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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