Philip Watson

Who visits a national park and what do they get out of it?: A joint visitor cluster analysis and travel cost model for Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone National Park visitor data were obtained from a survey collected for the National Park Service by the Park Studies Unit at the University of Idaho. Travel cost models have been conducted for national parks in the United States; however, this study builds on these studies and investigates how benefits vary by types of visitors who participate in different activities while at the park. Visitor clusters were developed based on activities in which a visitor participated while at the park. The clusters were analyzed and then incorporated into a travel cost model to determine the economic value (consumer surplus) that the different visitor groups received from visiting the park. The model was estimated using a zero-truncated negative binomial regression corrected for endogenous stratification. The travel cost price variable was estimated using both 1/3 and 1/4 the wage rate to test for sensitivity to opportunity cost specification. The average benefit across all visitor cluster groups was estimated at between

Small Community Level Social Accounting Matrices and their Application to Determining Marine Resource Dependency

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DID REGIONAL ECONOMIC DIVERSITY INFLUENCE THE EFFECTS OF THE GREAT RECESSION

276 per person per trip. However, per trip benefits varied substantially across clusters; from

Determining economic contributions in a recreational industry: an application to Colorado's golf industry.

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Spatial variations in the relationship between economic diversity and stability

103 for the “value picnickers,” to

Substitution of liquor sales across states

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Surviving the Great Recession: the influence of income inequality in US urban counties

263 for the “backcountry enthusiasts,”

Estimating willingness to pay for a threatened species within a threatened ecosystem

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The Welfare Economics of “Buy Local”

278 for the “do it all adventurists,”

Federal Fishery Policy and the Geographic Distribution of Commercial U.S. West Coast Fish Landings: Insights from the 2003 Federal Groundfish Permit Buyback

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