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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

Somerville: Visits to Lake Somerville

Description

a cross-section from 1980

number of observations : 659

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Somerville)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
visits
annual number of visits to lake Somerville
quality
quality ranking score for lake Somerville
ski
engaged in water--skiing at the lake ?
income
annual household income
feeSom
annual user fee paid at lake Somerville ?
costCon
expenditures when visiting lake Conroe
costSom
expenditures when visiting lake Somerville
costHoust
expenditures when visiting lake Houston

Source

Seller, Christine, John R. Stoll and Jean--Paul Chavas (1985) “Valuation of empirical measures of welfare change : a comparison of nonmarket techniques”, Land Economics, 61(2), may, 156--175. Gurmu, Shiferaw and Pravin K. Trivedi (1996) “ Excess zeros in count models for recreational trips”, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 14(4), october, 469--477. Santos Silva, Jao M. C. (2001) “A score test for non--nested hypotheses with applications to discrete data models”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16(5), 577--597.

References

Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : http://www.amstat.org/publications/jbes/. Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi P.K. (1998) Regression analysis of count data, Cambridge University Press, http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html, chapter 6.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations