Models of site-choice for walks in rural Ireland: Exploring cost heterogeneity

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 446-466

  Doherty, Edel ^a   Campbell, Danny ^b   Hynes, Stephen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Farmland recreation; Non market valuation; Preference heterogeneity; Random parameters logit; Welfare estimates

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RURAL SOCIETY; VALUATION; WALKING; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

IRELAND;

EID: 84877924431     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12002     Document Type: Article

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