Microeconometric strategies for dealing with unobservables and endogenous variables in recreation demand models

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 375-396

  Moeltner, Klaus ^a   Von Haefen, Roger ^b,c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Endogenous sorting; Expectation maximum algorithm; Latent class models; Preference heterogeneity; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052971900     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.resource.012809.103916     Document Type: Review

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