Comparing recreation benefits from on-site versus household surveys in count data travel cost demand models with overdispersion

Tourism Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 567-576

  Martínez Espiñeira, Roberto ^a   Loomis, John B ^b   Amoako Tuffour, Joe ^a   Hilbe, Joseph M ^c  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endogenous stratification; On site sampling; Overdispersion; Travel cost method; Truncation

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

EID: 53749097121     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000008785633532     Document Type: Article

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