Theory and estimation of the household production function for wildlife recreation |
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Authors: | Nancy E Bockstael Kenneth E McConnell |
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Institution: | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742, USA |
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Abstract: | The household production function is an intuitively appealing way to model man's interaction with nature. This paper models the interaction between the household's behavior and publicly provided inputs into wildlife recreation. The paper shows how to compute benefits, assuming that the household production function is known. The household production function approach collapses to the simple travel cost approach when households are unable to substitute their own inputs for publicly provided inputs. In addition, the paper demonstrates the conditions under which the parameters of cost and preference functions can be identified. The conditions for identification are quite restrictive when several choices are endogenous. |
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