Land Economics articles from May 1990

Land Economics archives from May 1990

Estimating recreation demand using the properties of the implied consumer surplus.
May 1, 1990... Estimating Recreation Demand Using the Properties of the Implied Consumer Surplus I. INTRODUCTION Consumer surplus estimates are random variables. While they are generally recognized as stochastic, little attention was given to their...

Double counting in hedonic and travel cost models.
May 1, 1990... Double Counting in Hedonic and Travel Cost Models Consider an imaginary situation in which an administrator of an environmental agency is responsible for reducing pollution in a lake. The pollution causes economic damage because the lake is...

Temporal reliability of contingent values.
May 1, 1990... Temporal Reliability of Contingent Values As contingent valuation has matured as an accepted procedure for estimating non-market values, the burgeoning literature on this topic appears focused on identifying the limits of its application....

Self interest, altruism, and health-risk reduction: an economic analysis of voting behavior.
May 1, 1990... Self-Interest, Altruism, and Health-Risk Reduction: An Economic Analysis of Voting Behavior I. INTRODUCTION While classical economic theory suggests that the demand for private goods is motivated by economic self-interest, a growing...

Export demand, U.S. farm income, and land prices: 1949 - 1985.
May 1, 1990... Export Demand, U.S. Farm Income, and Land Prices: 1949-1985 The growing openness of the U.S. economy has caused world supply and demand conditions to have significant farm-level impacts, emphasizing the important macro-economic linkages...

The market value of water in the Ogallala Aquifer. (High Plains aquifer that underlies parts of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico)
May 1, 1990... The Market Value of Water in the Ogallala Aquifer 1. INTRODUCTION The Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the Ogallala Formation or the High Plains aquifer, is a 174,000-square-mile body of water that underlies parts of Colorado, Kansas,...

"Natural" and "Improved" land in Marx's theory of rent. (Karl Marx)
May 1, 1990... "Natural" and "Improved" Land in Marx's Theory of Rent Marxian value theory has always had some difficulty with incorporating the products of nature into the calculation of value. Right at the start of Capital, Marx ([1894] 1976) insists...

The intrametropolitan location of new office firms.
May 1, 1990... The Intrametropolitan Location of New Office Firms I. INTRODUCTION Empirical evidence on the determinants of new office-firm location within a metropolitan area is of interest for several reasons. First, the suburbanization of...

The farm-level economics of soil conservation: the uplands of Java. (Java, Indonesia)
May 1, 1990... The Farm-Level Economics of Soil Conservation: The Uplands of Java I. INTRODUCTION On the densely populated island of Java in Indonesia, the area of severely eroded upland is increasing at the rate of 1-2 percent per annum and now...

Rent capture and feasibility of tropical forest management.
May 1, 1990... Rent Capture and the Feasibility of Tropical Forest Management I. INTRODUCTION Most naturally regenerated tropical forests are government-owned and administered (Lanly 1982). Timber from these forests is sold to concessionaires -...

A non-parametric approach to the estimation of welfare measures in discrete response valuation studies.
May 1, 1990... A Non-Parametric Approach to the Estimation of Welfare Measures in Discrete Response Valuation Studies I. INTRODUCTION The contingent valuation method using discrete response (yes or no) valuation questions is by now one of the most...