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Some Issues Concerning Specification and Interpretation of Outdoor Recreation Demand Models*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Thomas A. Jennings  and
Kenneth C. Gibbs
Thomas A. Jennings
Affiliation:
University of Florida
Kenneth C. Gibbs
Affiliation:
University of Florida
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Some currently popular procedures for analyzing the demand for outdoor recreation makes use of ancillary travel and on-site expenditures of recreationists as proxy prices. It can yet regrettably be asked whether the estimates produced by those methods bear any resemblance to the market-equivalent price-quantity relationships they generally purport to quantify. To some unavoidable extent this results from the necessary reliance upon proxies, or surrogates, for both quantity and price data. The ultimate value of proxy variables and of estimated relationships between them lies in the extent to which they resemble useful concepts. Past research has been based largely on assumptions of the resemblance.

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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , July 1974 , pp. 165 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1974

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Footnotes

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Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series No. 5433 under State Project AS-01623.

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