Using Count Data Models in Travel Cost Analysis with Aggregate Data

Hellerstein, Daniel

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“…The travel cost coefficient (tcost) is negative, consistently with the economic theory. This means that as travel cost increases, the number of trips decreases, as expected from the travel-cost sensitivity assumption (Hellerstein 1991). The positive and statistically significant coefficient for Tuscany indicates that people living in Tuscany region are more likely to visit Monte Morello peri-urban forest, which is reasonable since the study area is in the same region.…”

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Selective and traditional forest management options for black pine forests in Central Italy: effects on ecosystem services

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Abstract. Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) should be able to produce an optimal level of bundle of Ecosystem Services (ES), thus ensuring more resilient forest ecosystems and creating benefits for local population and human well-being. Yet, choosing between alternative forest management practices is not straightforward as it necessarily involves ES trade-offs. Forest management decisions have to reconcile the socio-economic and ecological contributions of forest ecosystems by fostering a synergistic relation between multiple ES while lowering ES trade-offs. The aim of the study is to analyze different forest management practices (selective and traditional thinning) in black pine peri-urban forest in Central Italy, by investigating their contribution in terms of provisioning (wood production), cultural (recreational benefits) and regulating (climate change mitigation) ES. For each management option was performed: (1) a biophysical assessment of selected ES by using primary data and calculating indicators for wood production with special regard to biomass for energy use (living trees and deadwood volume harvested), recreational benefits (tourists' preferences for each forest management practice), climate change mitigation (carbon sequestration in above-ground and below-ground biomass), and (2) an economic valuation of wood production, recreational benefits and climate change mitigation ES using direct and indirect methods (environmental evaluation techniques). The results show that the effects of the selective thinning on ES are higher that the effects of the traditional thinning. The economic value of the three ES provided by traditional and selective thinning are respectively: bioenergy production 154. and 36.2 € ha -1 yr -1 . The integrated (biophysical and economic) assessment of ES in addition to the trade-off analysis can provide multi-perspective insights for forest policy makers and can be included as a part of the local forest management plans.

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Selective and traditional forest management options for black pine forests in Central Italy: effects on ecosystem services

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“…Econometric models were introduced more recently and model the number of past trips through count data regressions, such as Poisson (Brida et al, 2012b) and Count Quantile (Brida et al, 2012c). These models are used in analogy with the travel cost analysis literature, a set of contributions that aims to estimate the demand for tourism by modelling the number of trips as function of the travel costs (Bestard and Font, 2010;Englin and Shonkwiler, 1995;Hellerstein, 1991;Hynes et al, 2009). …”

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The behaviour of repeat visitors to museums: review and empirical findings

2013

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This study presents a theoretical and operational framework for analyzing repeat visit to museums. Starting from the literature on repeat visit in tourism, the specificities of these cultural attractions are made explicit through a review of theoretical and applied works. Consistently with previous contributors, the paper suggests that the analysis of actual past behaviours has to be preferred to the one of attitudes. The application of proper econometric models is also remarked in order to put into account individual profiles. Information coming from three techniques is then used in an integrated way in order to provide a more comprehensive view of the phenomenon. Evidence from an ad hoc survey suggests the necessity to give a greater attention to perceived cultural value during the visit, promoting cultural events during the week and addressed to children, and taking care of those visitors that come from far places also through an integrated tourist supply.

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“…The Poisson distribution and its variants were used to represent the distributions of these trips. Daniel Hellerstein worked to develop this approach in his PhD dissertation at Yale along with Rob Mendelsohn, and the count data approach has since been extensively applied (for example, Hellerstein, 1991;Englin et al, 1997;Shonkwiler and Shaw, 1996;Haab and McConnell, 2002).…”

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The New Economics of Outdoor Recreation

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This introductory chapter sets out to accomplish four objectives. The first is to explain why outdoor recreation is a relevant and interesting subject of study for economists. Second, the chapter provides a short history of this field of study. Third, we very briefly detail the main methods for estimating the demand for and value of outdoor recreation, and how demand may change when environmental conditions change. Fourth and finally, we preview the chapters that follow this one.

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Using Count Data Models in Travel Cost Analysis with Aggregate Data

Cited by 168 publications

References 19 publications

Selective and traditional forest management options for black pine forests in Central Italy: effects on ecosystem services

Selective and traditional forest management options for black pine forests in Central Italy: effects on ecosystem services

The behaviour of repeat visitors to museums: review and empirical findings

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