Demand for urban tree cover: A two-stage hedonic price analysis in California

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 83, Issue , 2017, Pages 29-35

  Mei, Yingdan ^a   Hite, Diane ^b   Sohngen, Brent ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand; Hedonic price model; Spatial correlation; Urban tree cover

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; COSTS; FORESTRY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; SALES;

DEMAND; HEDONIC PRICE ANALYSIS; HEDONIC PRICE MODEL; IDENTIFICATION STRATEGIES; OWN-PRICE ELASTICITIES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL WEIGHT MATRIXES; URBAN TREE COVER;

COST ESTIMATING;

CORRELATION; MODELS; PRICES;

EID: 85020737965     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2017.05.009     Document Type: Article

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