From the NORC NOW email: $394 billion. That’s how much hunters, anglers, and wildlife observers spent on being in the wild in 2022, according to the latest...
I wrote a referee comment to the effect of: Many contingent valuation method researchers use the nonparametrice Turnbull WTP estimates for hypothesis testing. This is inappropriate when...
Tanga Mohr and John Whitehead [1]Department of Economics Appalachian State University Introduction The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a cap-and-trade program that covers the electric power sector...
In which we* use old-timey contingent valuation willingness to pay for a recreation trip questions. After this paper and others (in the past and in the future),...
From Data are Plural (10/11): Michigan air permit violations. For local news organization Planet Detroit, freelance journalist Shelby Jouppi has built a daily-updating dashboard of air quality permit violations cited by Michigan’s Department of...
From the WaPo (Olive oil prices reach record highs as Spain’s harvest is halved): Extreme heat, wildfires and drought have decimated much of the world’s olive oil...
I recently received a request for the NLogit code for this article: Whitehead, John C., and Daniel K. Lew. “Estimating recreation benefits through joint estimation of revealed...
From the WSJ (National Parks Will Close if Government Shuts Down): National parks will close their gates if lawmakers don’t pass legislation to keep the federal government...
It was the same paper. I was excited to boast that I might be the only person who has ever presented the same paper in the same...
The other day in my intro environmental and natural resource economics class we used the BDM method to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) values for an App...