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Wine Tourism In The Temecula Valley: Neoliberal Development Policies And Their Contradictions, Kevin Yelvington, Jason Simms, Elizabeth Murray
Wine Tourism In The Temecula Valley: Neoliberal Development Policies And Their Contradictions, Kevin Yelvington, Jason Simms, Elizabeth Murray
Jason L Simms
Wine tourism is a growing phenomenon, with tourists enjoying not only wine but a rural lifestyle that is associated with winegrowing areas and the elusive essence of terroir. The Temecula Valley in southern California, a small wine-producing region and wine tourism destination, is experiencing state-led plans for a vast expansion of production and tourism capacity. This article traces the challenges inherent in this development process, and questions the sustainability of such plans regarding the very environment the wine tourists seek out, especially regarding the availability of natural resources, mainly water, needed to fulfill these plans. The article concludes with a …
Who Tipped Over China’S Vegetable Basket?, Qian Forrest Zhang
Who Tipped Over China’S Vegetable Basket?, Qian Forrest Zhang
Qian Forrest ZHANG
No abstract provided.
A Bayesian Examination Of Information And Uncertainty In Contingent Valuation, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan, Owen Phillips
A Bayesian Examination Of Information And Uncertainty In Contingent Valuation, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan, Owen Phillips
Owen R Phillips
A theoretical framework is presented to explain how agents respond to information under uncertainty in contingent valuation surveys. Agents are provided with information signals and referendum prices as part of the elicitation process. Agents use Bayesian updating to revise prior distributions. An information prompt is presented to reduce hypothetical bias. However, we show the interaction between anchoring and the information prompt creates a systematic bias in willingness to pay. We test our hypotheses in an experimental setting where agents are asked to make a hypothetical, voluntary contribution to a public good. Experimental results are consistent with the model.
Estimating Hypothetical Bias In Economically Emergent Africa: A Generic Public Good Experiment, Arthur Caplan, David Aadland, Anthony Macharia
Estimating Hypothetical Bias In Economically Emergent Africa: A Generic Public Good Experiment, Arthur Caplan, David Aadland, Anthony Macharia
David Aadland
This paper reports results from a contingent valuation based public good experiment conducted in the African nation of Botswana. In a sample of university students, we find evidence that stated willingness to contribute to a public good in a hypothetical setting is higher than actual contribution levels. However, results from regression analysis suggest that this is true only in the second round of the experiment, when participants making actual contributions have learned to significantly lower their contribution levels. As globalization expands markets, and economies such as Botswana’s continue to modernize, there is a growing need to understand how hypothetical bias …
Household Valuation Of Curbside Recycling, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
Household Valuation Of Curbside Recycling, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
David Aadland
This paper looks at the willingness to pay for and participate in a curbside recycling program based on a survey of 401 residents in Ogden, Utah. Modifying the Cameron and James (1987) econometric model to fit ordered-interval data, we estimate that the mean willingness to pay for curbside recycling is $2.05 per month, and that 72% of the residents would willingly participate in such a program. Furthermore, females, young people, college-educated, those currently recycling without monetary reward, those regarding recycling as beneficial to the community and nation, and those with relatively high incomes are willing to pay the most for …
Willingness To Pay For Curbside Recycling With Detection And Mitigation Of Hypothetical Bias, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
Willingness To Pay For Curbside Recycling With Detection And Mitigation Of Hypothetical Bias, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
David Aadland
No abstract provided.
Recycling In Utah: Too Little Or Too Much?, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
Recycling In Utah: Too Little Or Too Much?, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
David Aadland
No abstract provided.
A New Direction For Assessing Market Power In The Beef Packing Industry, Lynn Hunnicutt, Deevon Bailey, David Aadland, Michelle Crook
A New Direction For Assessing Market Power In The Beef Packing Industry, Lynn Hunnicutt, Deevon Bailey, David Aadland, Michelle Crook
David Aadland
No abstract provided.
Curbside Recycling: Waste Resource Or Waste Of Resources?, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
Curbside Recycling: Waste Resource Or Waste Of Resources?, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
David Aadland
In this paper, we address the often contentious debate over state and local recycling policy by carefully estimating the social net benefit of curbside recycling. Benefits are estimated using household survey data from over 4,000 households across 40 western U.S. cities. We calibrate household willingness-to-pay for hypothetical bias using an innovative experimental design that contrasts stated and revealed preferences. Cost estimates are compiled from previous studies by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Institute for Local Self Reliance, and from in-depth interviews with recycling coordinators in our sampled cities. Across our sample of cities, we find that the estimated …
Incentive Incompatibility And Starting-Point Bias In Iterative Valuation Questions: Comment, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
Incentive Incompatibility And Starting-Point Bias In Iterative Valuation Questions: Comment, David Aadland, Arthur Caplan
David Aadland
In a recent study, Whitehead (2002) proposes incentive-incompatibility and starting-point-bias tests for iterative willingness-to-pay questions. We show that if restrictions associated with the nature of starting-point bias are not imposed on the estimation, one obtains inconsistent estimates of the structural parameters and may draw inaccurate conclusions regarding the extent of incentive incompatibility and starting-point bias in contingent-valuation survey data.
Development Of Land Rental Markets In Rural Zhejiang: Growth Of Off-Farm Jobs And Institution Building, Qian Forrest Zhang, Qingguo Ma, Xu Xu
Development Of Land Rental Markets In Rural Zhejiang: Growth Of Off-Farm Jobs And Institution Building, Qian Forrest Zhang, Qingguo Ma, Xu Xu
Qian Forrest ZHANG
We employ survey data collected in 2001 in Zhejiang province to investigate patterns and determinants of land market development. Previous studies have noted the correlation between growth of off-farm jobs and rental-market development at the aggregate level, but failed empirically to demonstrate mechanisms at the disaggregate level. Our analyses find concrete evidence at the household level connecting developments in labour and land markets. Growth in off-farm jobs allow rural households to transfer labour out of farming and prompt them to relinquish land rights, generating a supply of land that drives rental activities. We also go beyond interactions between factor markets …
From Peasants To Farmers: Peasant Differentiation, Labor Regimes And Land-Rights Institutions In China’S Agrarian Transition, Qian Forrest Zhang, John Andrew Donaldson
From Peasants To Farmers: Peasant Differentiation, Labor Regimes And Land-Rights Institutions In China’S Agrarian Transition, Qian Forrest Zhang, John Andrew Donaldson
Qian Forrest ZHANG
The development of factor markets has opened Chinese agriculture for the penetration of capitalism. This new round of rural transformation—China’s agrarian transition— raises the agrarian question in the Chinese context. This study investigates how capitalist forms and relations of production transform agricultural production and the peasantry class in rural China. The authors identify six forms of nonpeasant agricultural production, compare the labor regimes and direct producers’ socioeconomic statuses across these forms, and evaluate the role of China’s land-rights institution in shaping these forms. The empirical investigation presents three main findings: (1) Peasant differentiation : capitalist forms of agricultural production differentiate …
Benefits Of Rebuilding Global Marine Fisheries Outweigh Costs, Ling Huang, Ussif Sumaila Etc.
Benefits Of Rebuilding Global Marine Fisheries Outweigh Costs, Ling Huang, Ussif Sumaila Etc.
Ling Huang
No abstract provided.
A Simple Method To Visualize Results In Nonlinear Regression Models, Daniel Henderson, Subal Kumbhakar, Christopher Parmeter
A Simple Method To Visualize Results In Nonlinear Regression Models, Daniel Henderson, Subal Kumbhakar, Christopher Parmeter
Christopher F. Parmeter
No abstract provided.
Gdp Clustering: A Reappraisal, Michele Battisti, Christopher Parmeter
Gdp Clustering: A Reappraisal, Michele Battisti, Christopher Parmeter
Christopher F. Parmeter
No abstract provided.
A Review Of The Bms Package For R, Shahram Amini, Christopher Parmeter
A Review Of The Bms Package For R, Shahram Amini, Christopher Parmeter
Christopher F. Parmeter
This paper describes the relative merits and attractiveness of the newest Bayesian model averaging package, BMS, available in the statistical software R to implement a Bayesian model averaging exercise. This package provides the user a wide range of customizable priors for conducting a BMA analysis, provides ample graphs to visualize results and offers several alternative model search mechanisms.
Managing Bluefin Tuna In The Mediterranean Sea, Ling Huang, Ussif Sumaila
Managing Bluefin Tuna In The Mediterranean Sea, Ling Huang, Ussif Sumaila
Ling Huang
No abstract provided.
Normal Reference Bandwidths For The General Order, Multivariate Kernel Density Derivative Estimator, Christopher Parmeter, Daniel Hendseron
Normal Reference Bandwidths For The General Order, Multivariate Kernel Density Derivative Estimator, Christopher Parmeter, Daniel Hendseron
Christopher F. Parmeter
No abstract provided.
Smooth Coefficient Estimation Of A Seemingly Unrelated Regression, Daniel Henderson, Subal Kumbhakar, Qi Li, Christopher Parmeter
Smooth Coefficient Estimation Of A Seemingly Unrelated Regression, Daniel Henderson, Subal Kumbhakar, Qi Li, Christopher Parmeter
Christopher F. Parmeter
No abstract provided.
Case Studies Of Bluefin Tuna In The Mediterranean Sea, Ling Huang, Ussif Suamila
Case Studies Of Bluefin Tuna In The Mediterranean Sea, Ling Huang, Ussif Suamila
Ling Huang
No abstract provided.
Bayesian Estimation Approaches To First-Price Auctions, Subal Kumbhakar, Christopher Parmeter, Efthymios Tsionas
Bayesian Estimation Approaches To First-Price Auctions, Subal Kumbhakar, Christopher Parmeter, Efthymios Tsionas
Christopher F. Parmeter
This paper considers Bayesian estimation strategies for first-price auctions within the independent private value paradigm. We develop an ‘optimization’ error approach that allows for estimation of values assuming that observed bids differ from optimal bids. We further augment this approach by allowing systematic over or underbidding by bidders using ideas from the stochastic frontier literature. We perform a simulation study to showcase the appeal of the method and apply the techniques to timber auction data collected in British Columbia. Our results suggest that significant underbidding is present in the timber auctions.
Quasi-Experiments And Hedonic Property Value Methods, Christopher Parmeter, Jaren Pope
Quasi-Experiments And Hedonic Property Value Methods, Christopher Parmeter, Jaren Pope
Christopher F. Parmeter
There has recently been a dramatic increase in the number of papers that have combined quasi-experimental methods with hedonic property models. This is largely due to the concern that cross-sectional hedonic methods may be severely biased by omitted variables. While the empirical literature has developed extensively, there has not been a consistent treatment of the theory and methods of combining hedonic property models with quasi-experiments. The purpose of this chapter is to fill this void. An effort is made to provide background information on the traditional hedonic theory, the traditional cross-sectional hedonic methods as well as the newer quasi-experimental hedonic …
Policing The Wilderness: A Descriptive Study Of Wildlife Conservation Officers In South Africa., Greg Warchol
Policing The Wilderness: A Descriptive Study Of Wildlife Conservation Officers In South Africa., Greg Warchol
Greg Warchol
No abstract provided.
Empirical Implementation Of Nonparametric First-Price Auction Models, Daniel Henderson, John List, Daniel Millimet, Christopher Parmeter, Michael Price
Empirical Implementation Of Nonparametric First-Price Auction Models, Daniel Henderson, John List, Daniel Millimet, Christopher Parmeter, Michael Price
Christopher F. Parmeter
Although these estimators are popular in the literature, many key features necessary for proper implementation have yet to be uncovered. Here we provide several suggestions for nonparametric estimation of first-price auction models. Specifically, we show how to impose monotonicity of the equilibrium bidding strategy; a key property of structural auction models not guaranteed in standard nonparametric estimation. We further develop methods for automatic bandwidth selection. Finally, we discuss how to impose monotonicity in auctions with differing numbers of bidders, reserve prices, and auction-specific characteristics. Finite sample performance is examined using simulated data as well as experimental auction data.
Preliminary Estimate Of Short-Term Economic Losses Of The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill, Ling Huang, Ussif Sumaila Etc.
Preliminary Estimate Of Short-Term Economic Losses Of The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill, Ling Huang, Ussif Sumaila Etc.
Ling Huang
No abstract provided.
Income Polarization, Convergence Tools And Mixture Analysis, Michele Battisti, Christopher Parmeter
Income Polarization, Convergence Tools And Mixture Analysis, Michele Battisti, Christopher Parmeter
Christopher F. Parmeter
Modeling the cross-country distribution of per capita using mixture analysis provides a natural platform for the recovery or detection of clubs of countries. Unfortunately, these mixture methods, when based on a strictly univariate approach are limiting towards one's ability to learn about the underlying process of the emergence of the clubs. This paper takes a fresh look at the sources contributing to the emergence of clubs in the distribution of cross-country output using bivariate and multivariate mixture analysis.