Title

Rationed access and welfare: The case of public resource lotteries

Authors

Authors

D. O. Scrogin;R. P. Berrens

Abbreviated Journal Title

Land Econ.

Keywords

RECREATION DEMAND MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; JOINT ESTIMATION; ECONOMIC; VALUE; CHOICE; SITE; Economics; Environmental Studies

Abstract

Pressures on public lands and waterways are resulting increasingly in the rationing of public access by lottery. Upon accounting for the uncertainties of random rationing, discrete choice models lend themselves to analyzing participation in public resource lotteries and estimating welfare changes. Key to valuing lottery-rationed rights is accounting for changes in access probabilities that result from policy changes. The empirical application models the discrete choices of more than 18, 000 participants in a New Mexico lottery system for elk harvest rights. Welfare estimates are obtained from simulated policy changes that affect, individually and jointly, the access probability and indirect utility.

Journal Title

Land Economics

Volume

79

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Language

English

First Page

137

Last Page

148

WOS Identifier

WOS:000182568500001

ISSN

0023-7639

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