TY - JOUR TI - Modeling Inverse Demands for Fish: Empirical Welfare Measurement in Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries AU - Park, Hoanjae AU - Thurman, Walter N. AU - Easley,, J.E. T2 - Marine Resource Economics AB - We analyze demand substitution relationships among fish in the snapper/grouper complex in the southeast United States. Monthly data from 1977 to 1992 are used to form a set of six fish aggregates. The dockside demands are analyzed in an empirical inverse demand system, developed for the purposes of this study. Attention is paid to consistency of the system with the theory of demand, to functional form flexibility, and to consistent estimation of parameters. Empirical results imply that the demands have small quantity elasticities, which can be thought of as high price elasticities in a direct demand system. Regulatory variations in landed quantities have little measured effect on prices, implying that market prices are good per-unit measures of the welfare costs of catch restrictions to consumers. Welfare estimates of hypothetical harvest reductions are computed and illustrated. DA - 2004/1// PY - 2004/1// DO - 10.1086/MRE.19.3.42629438 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 333-351 J2 - Marine Resource Economics LA - en OP - SN - 0738-1360 2334-5985 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/MRE.19.3.42629438 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - Seeing the forest for the fuel AU - Pattanayak, Subhrendu K. AU - Sills, Erin O. AU - Kramer, Randall A. T2 - Environment and Development Economics AB - We demonstrate a new approach to understanding the role of fuelwood in the rural household economy by applying insights from travel cost modeling to author-compiled household survey data and meso-scale environmental statistics from Ruteng Park in Flores, Indonesia. We characterize Manggarai farming households' fuelwood collection trips as inputs into household production of the utility yielding service of cooking and heating. The number of trips taken by households depends on the shadow price of fuelwood collection or the travel cost, which is endogenous. Econometric analyses using truncated negative binomial regression models and correcting for endogeneity show that the Manggarai are ‘economically rational’ about fuelwood collection and access to the forests for fuelwood makes substantial contributions to household welfare. Increasing cost of forest access, wealth, use of alternative fuels, ownership of kerosene stoves, trees on farm, park staff activity, primary schools and roads, and overall development could all reduce dependence on collecting fuelwood from forests. DA - 2004/4/2/ PY - 2004/4/2/ DO - 10.1017/S1355770X03001220 VL - 9 IS - 2 SP - 155-179 J2 - Envir. Dev. Econ. LA - en OP - SN - 1355-770X 1469-4395 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X03001220 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - Estimation and Welfare Analysis With Large Demand Systems AU - von Haefen, Roger H AU - Phaneuf, Daniel J AU - Parsons, George R T2 - Journal of Business & Economic Statistics AB - We develop an approach for estimating individual or household level preferences for a large set of quality-differentiated goods and for constructing Hicksian welfare measures within the demand system framework. Our approach uses a maximum simulated likelihood procedure to recover estimates of the structural parameters and a multistage, Monte Carlo Markov chain algorithm for constructing Hicksian consumer surplus estimates. We illustrate our approach with a recreation dataset consisting of day trips to 62 Mid-Atlantic beaches. DA - 2004/4// PY - 2004/4// DO - 10.1198/073500104000000082 VL - 22 IS - 2 SP - 194-205 J2 - Journal of Business & Economic Statistics LA - en OP - SN - 0735-0015 1537-2707 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1198/073500104000000082 DB - Crossref KW - beach recreation KW - demand system models KW - random parameters KW - simulation KW - welfare analysis ER - TY - SOUND TI - Crowding Out Open Space: Federal Land Programs and their Effects on Private Land Trust Activity AU - Parker, Dominic P. AU - Thurman, Walter N. DA - 2004/// PY - 2004/// N1 - Also presented at Montana State University, Michigan State University, and the University of Illinois in summer and fall 2004. RN - Also presented at Montana State University, Michigan State University, and the University of Illinois in summer and fall 2004. ER - TY - CONF TI - A Classical Liberal View of Land Trusts AU - Thurman, Walter N. C2 - 2004/8// C3 - Biennial International Meeting CY - Salt Lake City DA - 2004/8// ER - TY - JOUR TI - Survey results from NC State University AU - Sills, E. AU - Estevez, R. T2 - Pine Tips: Newsletter of the Eastern NC Christmas Tree Growers Association DA - 2004/// PY - 2004/// ER - TY - JOUR TI - Reflections on West Africa AU - Sills, E. AU - Pattanayak, S. T2 - Sylvanet DA - 2004/// PY - 2004/// VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 17 ER - TY - CONF TI - Outreach to limited resource forest landowners: extension innovation for low literacy audiences AU - Mance, K. AU - Sills, E. AU - Warren, S. C2 - 2004/// C3 - Human Dimensions of Family, Farm, and Community Forestry DA - 2004/// ER - TY - JOUR TI - Economics and honey bee pollination markets AU - Burgett, M. AU - Rucker, R. R. AU - Thurman, W. N. T2 - American Bee Journal DA - 2004/// PY - 2004/// VL - 144 IS - 4 SP - 269-271 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Forest forecasts: does individual heterogeneity matter for market and landscape outcomes? AU - Pattanayak, SK AU - Abt, RC AU - Sommer, AJ AU - Cubbage, F AU - Murray, BC AU - Yang, JC AU - Wear, D AU - Alm, S T2 - FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS AB - Recent econometric analyses have shown that timber supply choices reflect heterogeneous preferences for amenities and management of forests in the US South. However, this evidence is insufficient to determine whether timber market models that rely on conventional timber supply specifications will suffer from significant forecasting biases. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the nature and extent of such bias by (a) modifying the Sub-Regional Timber Supply (SRTS) model to reflect landowner heterogeneity; and (b) using estimated parameters to tie timber markets to heterogeneous individual supply choices. We find that conventional models will underestimate the ending period inventory volume in the younger age classes of all forest management types, except planted pines. These aggregate results mask interesting sub-regional patterns, as exemplified by mixed-pine forests of Virginia mountains, Florida panhandle, and North Carolina mountains, and natural pine forests of North Carolina piedmont. Compared to empirically valid models, conventional models will also estimate (a) lower timber prices, higher harvests and substantially higher inventory for softwood species; and (b) higher prices, lower harvests, and higher inventory for hardwood species. A case study from North Carolina also indicates significant differences in habitat forecasts for 61 species of birds, amphibians, and reptiles. We conclude with a synthesis of the key underlying forces that supplement or mitigate the heterogeneity impact, and a discussion of the bias-vs.-efficiency tradeoffs confronting policy makers and policy analysts who rely on forest sector projection models. DA - 2004/6// PY - 2004/6// DO - 10.1016/j.forpol.2004.03.017 VL - 6 IS - 3-4 SP - 243-260 SN - 1872-7050 KW - timber supply KW - amenity demand KW - wildlife habitat KW - forest inventory projection KW - southern US forests ER - TY - JOUR TI - Managing resistance evolution in two pests to two toxins with refugia AU - Livingston, MJ AU - Carlson, GA AU - Fackler, PL T2 - AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AB - We use a regulatory model with resistance evolution in two pests to insecticidal Bt cotton and pyrethroids (a conventional insecticide) to examine non-Bt cotton (refuge) planting requirements designed to manage Bt-resistance evolution in the midsouth. Our analysis suggests that reduced refuge requirements would enhance producer profitability, sprayed refugia are more cost effective than unsprayed refugia, and producers would receive slightly higher returns under dynamic relative to static refuge policies. Pyrethroid susceptibility in one of the pests was a renewable resource, and toxin-mixture effects associated with pyrethroid use in Bt cotton were important considerations for midsouth refuge policies. DA - 2004/2// PY - 2004/2// DO - 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00558.x VL - 86 IS - 1 SP - 1-13 SN - 0002-9092 KW - Bt cotton KW - bollworm KW - budworm KW - pyrethroids KW - refuge policy KW - renewable susceptibility KW - resistance management ER - TY - JOUR TI - Rural infrastructure, transactions costs and market participation in Kenya AU - Renkow, M AU - Hallstrom, DG AU - Karanja, DD T2 - JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS AB - We develop a conceptual framework for quantifying fixed transactions costs facing semisubsistence households. Using household survey data from a sample of 324 Kenyan maize farmers, we jointly estimate household supply and demand schedules and transactions costs. Econometric results indicate that on average the ad valorem tax equivalent of fixed transactions costs for households in our sample is 15%. Additional analysis indicates that economic isolation is positively associated with the size of transactions costs. To the best of our knowledge, ours are the first empirical estimates of the magnitude of fixed transactions costs for agricultural households in developing countries. DA - 2004/2// PY - 2004/2// DO - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2003.02.003 VL - 73 IS - 1 SP - 349-367 SN - 0304-3878 KW - transactions costs KW - semisubsistence households KW - market participation ER - TY - JOUR TI - Globalization and the developing countries: Emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation AU - Renkow, M. T2 - Agricultural Economics DA - 2004/// PY - 2004/// VL - 30 IS - 3 SP - 255-256 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Vulnerability of Mid-Atlantic forested watersheds to timber harvest disturbance AU - Schaberg, RH AU - Abt, RC T2 - ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT DA - 2004/6// PY - 2004/6// DO - 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000016882.72472.e1 VL - 94 IS - 1-3 SP - 101-113 SN - 0167-6369 KW - environmental modeling KW - forest landscape modeling KW - regional vulnerability assessment KW - simulation model KW - timber harvest KW - watershed KW - Mid-Atlantic ER - TY - JOUR TI - Seeing the forest for the fuel AU - Pattanayak, S. K. AU - Sills, Erin AU - Kramer, R. A. T2 - Environment and Development Economics DA - 2004/// PY - 2004/// DO - 10.1017/S135570X03001220 VL - 9 IS - 2004 Apr SP - 155–179 ER -