Identifying the effects of a land-use policy on willingness to pay for open space using an endogenous switching regression model

Land Use Policy

Volumn 102, Issue , 2021, Pages

  Cao, Yangzhe ^a   Swallow, Brent ^a   Qiu, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Canada; Endogenous switching regression; Hedonic pricing model; Land use policy; Open space

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FOREST; GRASSLAND; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; LAND USE PLANNING; NATIONAL PARK; OPEN SPACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

ALBERTA;

EID: 85099389305     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105183     Document Type: Article

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