The implementation or amendment of patient charges in a country could benefit from preliminary analyses of their potential effects on health care demand. This paper focuses on hospital care. The paper aims to identify strategies for the empirical analysis of the demand for hospital services that...

This study analyzes U.S. consumers' demand for eight food commodity groups: Cereal and Bakery goods, Meat and Eggs, Dairy, Fruits and Vegetables, Nonalcoholic Beverages, Fats and Oils, Sugar and Sweets, and Miscellaneous goods. The data used in this study is Nielsen Homescan data for the period...

The opportunity Value of Travel Time (VTT) is one of the most important parts of the total cost of recreation day-trips and arguably the most difficult to estimate. Most studies build upon the theoretical framework proposed by Becker's (1965) by using a combination of revealed and stated...

Using estimation of demand for the George Washington/Jefferson NationalForest as a case study, it is shown that in a stratified/clustered on-sitesample, latent heterogeneity needs to be accounted for twice: first to accountfor dispersion in the data caused by unobservability of the process that...