Dr. John Whitehead, Chair of the Walker College of Business' Department of Economics, recently presented research on Estimating Recreation Benefits through Joint Estimation of Revealed and Stated Preference Discrete Choice Data at an academic seminar hosted by Resources for the Future (RFF).
The paper, which was co-authored by Daniel Lew, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle, Washington, suggests that there are significant gains to jointly estimating revealed preference recreation trip and stated preference choice experiment data and that there are significant gains in econometric efficiency and differences between the two types of willingness to pay estimates are mitigated by joint estimation.
The seminar was held in Washington DC on September 17.
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