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Conjoint Analysis of Deer Hunting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

John Mackenzie
John Mackenzie*
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Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Delaware
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Abstract

This paper develops a logit-based conjoint analysis of willingness to pay for individual attributes of deer-hunting trips. Since deer-hunting success is uncertain, willingness to pay for enhanced likelihood of bagging a deer, rather than for certain success, is evaluated. Implicit costs of recreational travel time are also evaluated from hypothetical trade-offs between travel time and trip expenditures. The valuation of travel time derived here appears to reflect more the opportunity cost of foregone hunting than the opportunity cost of foregone work. This implies that travel-cost analyses of recreational demand, which impute costs of recreational travel solely from wage data, can yield biased valuations of recreational amenities.

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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , October 1990 , pp. 109 - 117
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Copyright © 1990 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This article was published as Miscellaneous Paper no. 1341 of the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station. This research was supported in part by a grant from the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife. The author thanks Benaifer Eduljee for assisting with the data collection and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on prior drafts.

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