Valuing a beach day with a repeated nested logit model of participation, site choice, and stochastic time value

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-252

  Lew, Daniel K ^a,b   Larson, Douglas M ^b  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach recreation; Labor supply; Opportunity cost of leisure; Recreation demand; Repeated nested logit; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649130707     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/mre.23.3.42629616     Document Type: Article

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